A crash is currently reconstructed by argument. AutoPoD reconstructs it from high-rate inertial telemetry, proves the kinematics, and commits the record to a tree nobody can quietly edit.
A proprietary black box records numbers in a format its manufacturer controls, on a CAN bus that can be interfered with, and the dispute afterwards is conducted in prose. The overlap diagram above is what the sensors say happened: a 25% frontal off-centre engagement, with the impulse carried from the striking vehicle into the struck one.
AutoPoD buffers high-rate inertial measurement, wheel velocity encoders and optical flow in ring buffers, locking the 10-second window around the event with nanosecond timestamps. From that it computes conservation of momentum, the delta-V vectors and the deformation energy across a multi-body model — in Rust, deterministically, so two evaluators reach the same figure.
The telemetry itself does not have to be disclosed to settle a claim. What a counterparty needs is a proof that the threshold was crossed and that the record is the one the sensors signed — which is what the Merkle tree and the zero-knowledge settlement path are for.
git clone https://github.com/KELLERBABG/AutoPoD.git cd AutoPoD && cargo test # 9-crate workspace
Scope. An audit and reconstruction tool. It does not replace a crash investigation, and the physics engine is validated against a model rather than against instrumented crash tests.