This week, the Road Watch team delivered its first Qualification Review (QRB1). As discussed in the previous blog post, the QRB events provide an opportunity for teams to receive constructive feedback and a risk assessment from a panel of experts. Our feedback was mostly positive (which was good to hear), though there was some issues raised. First, the panel though that some elements of our system (presumably our computer vision solution and our predictive algorithm) were ill defined at this point, which is a point that we also raised. Second, they indicated doubt in our ability to satisfy all design specifications with our prototype, probably because of the uncertainty of the viability of our predictive algorithm. Further, the panel recommended that we focus on creating a minimal viable hardware solution before we proceed to optimize the predictive algorithm, and they emphasized that this should happen soon. Thus, we are ramping up efforts in our design work for these hardware deliverables. Be sure to come back next week to see the progress we’ve made.