The fewest cars. The deadliest roads.
On a highway with one lane each way, a single blind overtake can kill two people at once. TraqNav puts sensors by the road and a safety core at the edge that tells a driver in the moment whether it is safe to pass, and says stop whenever it cannot be sure.
Africa has 3% of the world's vehicles and 19% of its road deaths.
It is the only region where the toll is still rising. Every figure here links to its source, so this is a problem you can check rather than one we ask you to take on faith.
road deaths per 100,000 people in Africa, the highest of any world region (the global average is 15, Europe 6.7).
WHO Global Status Report 2023, 2021Africa has 19% of the world's road deaths but only 3% of the world's vehicles.
WHO 2023, 2021rise in road deaths in Africa since 2010, the only world region where the toll is still going up while the rest fell.
WHO 2023, 2010 to 2021lives lost on Africa's roads in a single year, part of 1.19 million killed worldwide.
WHO 2023, 2021Most of the network is one lane each way, with nothing down the middle.
On a road with one lane each way, passing means crossing into oncoming traffic. In a collision the two speeds add together, which is why these are the crashes people do not walk away from.
in Ghana, collisions between oncoming vehicles are 9% of crashes but 15% of deaths, tied by the study to unsafe overtaking on undivided roads.
Adanu et al., Heliyon, 2023of assessed African roads have no centre separation between oncoming lanes, so most of the network is undivided with one lane each way.
iRAP / SSATP Africa, 2025of Africa's road deaths are pedestrians walking beside the same undivided highways.
WHO Global Status Report, 2018Sensors watch the road. A safety core makes the call. At the edge, in real time.
Oncoming traffic is only half of it. The same poles also watch for a stalled car, a stray animal, or a pothole in the lane, and they tell an approaching driver to slow down, stop, or go around once the way is clear.
Roadside sensors track oncoming traffic on the stretch ahead, the part a driver cannot see past the vehicle in front.
A safety core weighs the gap, the closing speed, and the room to pass, then returns a single answer of go or stop.
The edge owns the verdict, so there is no lag, and it never guesses. When the margin is not proven the answer is stop.
Ride along. The core calls every pass.
You are the driver on a highway with one lane each way, at night. The phone on the dash shows the safety core's live call, computed right here in your browser, not a video. It sees the oncoming traffic you cannot, around the curve and past the vehicle ahead, and it refuses whenever it cannot be sure.
Starting the safety core...
Computed by the real TraqNav safety core, running here in your browser. This is a simulation, not a live driver signal.
Or watch it as a map.
The identical core, seen from above. Your car, the truck to pass, the oncoming stream, and the verdict laid out as geometry. Pick a road and watch the window open and shut.
Starting the safety core...
A wrong go is the one thing it is built to make hard.
You just watched it refuse passes it could not prove safe. That is not luck. Six design choices make a confident wrong go structurally hard, and every one of them is checked in the tests, not just described here.
So the core leans one way on purpose. When it cannot be sure, it says stop. It would rather cost you a safe pass than wave you into an unsafe one.
It only trusts the road the sensors can see right now. A blind dip, a pole that just went quiet, a gap between poles. Each is treated as if a car could be hiding there.
It never bets on the oncoming car holding its speed. It plans for it accelerating toward you, up to highway top speed, and says go only if the pass still clears.
Every safety rule is built so turning it up can take a go away, never invent one. That is checked across hundreds of random road situations in the tests, not a handful of chosen ones.
The code that makes the call is checked so it cannot crash or return garbage while deciding. That is proven for every possible reading on the hazard alerts, and tested across a huge range on the overtaking call.
There is a plain safety case that grades each promise honestly, proven, well tested, or still to do, and names its own gaps. Trust you can check beats trust we ask for.
What a corridor looks like.
Pole positions computed on real road geometry, at the same spacing the demonstrations above run. Six sample corridors to start, and the same math applies to any road you name.
21 poles watch 10.2 km of N3, Yaounde toward Douala, one every 500 m.
This road links Yaounde with Douala, the port city that handles most of Cameroon's trade. Nearly all freight between the two rides this single road.
WHO estimates 2,870 road deaths a year as of 2021, while the nationally reported figure is 930. WHO country profile
Planning illustration on a real road. No poles are deployed here.
Whether it is a public highway or a private road network, the math above is the starting point.
Made for the roads that need it most.
The deadliest stretches are also the ones with the least. No signal, no grid, no connected cars. TraqNav is built for exactly that. And when it cannot be sure the way is clear, it says stop, never go.
The pole makes the call in under 100 ms, right at the roadside. No round trip to a server, so there is no lag between reading the road and warning the driver.
The safety call never touches the cloud or a cell tower. It works on a blind stretch with no coverage, which is exactly where the danger is worst.
The pole is built to broadcast to the driver's own phone, which shows the call as the car approaches. No device to buy, nothing to fit in the car.
Each pole runs on solar power, so coverage follows the road, not the electricity grid. Put one wherever the overtakes get dangerous.
See the whole plan.
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