LaneBot is a smart driving assistant for older vehicles, providing real-time object and lane detection using AI-powered backend processing and a live iOS front end. The app uses YOLOv8 for object recognition and alerts users with sound and visual feedback to enhance road safety. LaneBot is an AI-powered driving assistant designed to bring modern safety features to older vehicles. It’s an app on your phone that opens a camera, providing real-time footage of your dashboard view while driving and highlighting your distance to other objects, lane positioning, and stop lights.

• Real-time video capture and object detection

• Front vehicle proximity alerts

• Lane boundary awareness alerts

• Red light detection and warning system

• Custom sound alerts for different hazard types

• Flask backend using YOLOv8 and OpenCV

• iOS Swift frontend using AVFoundation and Vision

• Swift 5
• UIKit, AVFoundation
• Xcode Interface Builder
• Custom sound alerts via AVAudioPlayer

• Flask
• YOLOv8 (Ultralytics)
• OpenCV
• Pillow
• pyngrok

Our project LaneBot won First Place (on General Track) at WeHack 2025!
Check out our full submission and demo on Devpost:
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