This week, the Road Watch team completed its second Qualification Review, QRB2. As explained in last week’s post, the QRBs are an event where teams receive constructive feedback and a risk assessment from a group of experienced faculty. This time, our panel consisted of Dr. Rui Guo (our coach), Dr. Vincent Tocco (the MaeChem Silanes coach), and Dr. Eban Bean (the Crystal Clear Waters coach). The panel seemed optimistic about our project, but identified some issues. They identified that, despite the large amount of progress that has been made, our prototype has a lot of work to go before it is an MVP (minimum viable product). In particular, they were concerned about our alert subsystem, for which no progress has yet been made. Additionally, they pointed out that it was not currently clear that our TPMs (technical performance measures) would be satisfied. Lastly, they were again concerned about the accuracy of the system’s predictive abilities. Their recommendations focused on testing; one panelist provided a location in Gainesville where vehicles merged together as a good spot for testing. Therefore, the next round of designing will focus on completing the hardware MVP, to enable the recommended testing and to prove our system’s predictive capabilities. Next week will feature more prototyping, so be sure to come back next week to keep up with our progress.