AutoMate: To Keep Moving

Abstract

In Pakistan, the people using motor vehicles, either cars or bikes, are very often stuck with vehicle breakdowns while travelling. These breakdowns result in frequent delays, long waiting times, or relying on passerby’s help. Even though the number of motor vehicles is increasing tremendously and the problems related to vehicle breakdowns on the road are proportionally increasing as well, there is no such platform available that can provide help on the spot without any delays, with a price negotiation and verification system integrated into it. This research proposes a complete design of a centralised platform named AutoMate to solve this societal problem, which includes a mobile application that aims to provide on-spot, real-time assistance to users who are stuck in any roadside vehicle breakdown through a location-based GPS tracking system connecting users with the nearest service providers easily and efficiently.

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