Abstract: Today, one of the largest areas of research and development in the automobile industry is road safety. Many deaths and injuries occur every year on public roads from accidents that technology could have been used to prevent. The latest vehicles sold boast many safety features that have helped to lower the number of accidents on the roads. Even today, a person has to manually monitor the vehicles coming from behind through their rear view mirrors and any sort of mistake while monitoring can lead to fatal accidents. Several systems for Obstacle Detection and assist are present namely Lane Departure Warning, Reverse Assist, Drift assist, Blind Spot Monitoring etc.