With a cold snap gripping central and eastern China, the China Academy of Safety Science & Technology and digital-mapping giant Amap have rolled out a major upgrade to their “Eagle Eye Guardian” platform two weeks ahead of the peak Spring Festival exodus. The AI system fuses minute-by-minute weather feeds, Beidou positioning and crowd-sourced hard-braking data to push hyper-local alerts—now covering snow, black ice and sudden fog—to drivers’ smartphones within seconds. (huacheng.gz-cmc.com)
Heavy-vehicle safety is a focal point: new algorithms lengthen braking-distance warnings for trucks and buses and trigger prompts to use snow chains on expressways known for multi-vehicle pile-ups. Officials estimate self-drive trips will account for 80 percent of the forecast 9.5 billion passenger journeys this season, making real-time hazard detection vital.
From a global-mobility perspective, the upgrade benefits expatriate employees posted to China who increasingly rely on self-drive or ride-hailing for inter-city trips. Corporate security managers can integrate Eagle Eye’s API into travel-risk dashboards, enabling push notifications to company fleets and rented vehicles.
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The system has already issued 11.2 billion warnings since its soft launch four months ago and now averages 88 million alerts per day. In pilot provinces, highway patrols report a 17 percent drop in weather-related accidents, lending empirical support to Beijing’s “safety-first” transport policy.
Authorities plan to extend coverage to cross-border trunk roads leading into Vietnam and Myanmar by mid-2026, a move that could give manufacturers in the Greater Mekong region an early warning layer for just-in-time deliveries.
