Periodical Vehicle Inspections with Smart Technology

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper highlights the utilization of smartphone applications in the process of periodical technical inspections, focusing on road safety and the detection of vehicle defects. It discusses the transition of technical inspections in the Slovak Republic towards smart technologies, emphasizing the use of smartphones for data collection, process management, and vehicle dynamics measurements. The paper further presents the outcomes of implementing this app at all technical inspection stations in the country over a two-year period. Notably, the successful implementation of low-cost devices at a large scale is a significant factor in this research. This paper is well written and easy to understand.

 

Several issues should be addressed as follows:

1.       In the introduction section, it is suggested to incorporates more latest reference to review the research status of this area.

2.       Some typos in the manuscript

(1)    L100 has became à has become

(2)    L107 in December of that year à in the December of that year

 

3.       It is suggested to thoroughly proofread the entire manuscript to correct any remaining errors.

Please refer to the weaknesses part.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have taken up an interesting issue that is still being widely developed. Road safety, technical condition of vehicles, driver behavior analysis, all these aspects can be considered by mobile applications. The authors should state in the abstract why they decided to carry out this type of research, which was the main reason. Then they should define the main goal of carrying out this research.

Verses 35 to 43 are unquoted. In terms of the literature review, it is very important to show how the existing solutions improve road safety. Also verses 50 to 55 are not referenced in the literature.

Table 2 contains information on brake violations in 2019, the authors could show how this type of fraud has changed over time, e.g. in 2015-2022.

The authors could present the process of using the application step by step in a diagram. In addition, the authors make a lot of confusion with the data, once the data from 2019 is analyzed and then they are analyzed from 2021, after which the DTC code results are analyzed in 2020 and 2021. The authors should provide full data from the selected period and then analyze all or part of it. There is a lot of confusion right now.

The introduction must be clarified by the authors. It should be analyzed whether there are similar applications in other EU Member States.

Conclusions should contain information that supports the problem and main objective outlined in the abstract. In addition, in the conclusions, the authors should write whether they will carry out further research in terms of this issue.

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Reviewer 3 Report

The subject is interesting, but the topic does not lend itself to a research article, the application is more for the private environment and it is something that supports existing equipment, but the degree of scientific contribution is not noticeable.

- The norms of an article that includes a chapter dedicated to the current state of research and comparisons with systems from the same field of activity are not respected, there is no scientific methodology to prove what you present and besides that, there are not enough arguments to support the novelty.

- The format of the article is not the one requested by the journal, the graphic elements of the journal are not found, and the current format is different from the version uploaded by you.

- Observations regarding the usefulness of the article, mathematical principles, and pertinent conclusions to support the future implementation of a goal in this direction.

Maybe you can make more theoretical, practical, and methodological contributions to the chosen subject.

What is the application made of? What are the communication protocols you use? Architecture? Language?

The conclusions are non-existent, try to bring the article to a form as scientific as possible.

 

The existence of a device called AutoPi dongle (4G/5G/LTE/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth) completely cancels your contribution. This is a device that manages errors, locations, speeds, and the entire state of the vehicle and can also be installed on fleets, it is a module that can have shape recognition, AI, and remote management of certain safety and security elements, but also many others.

If you have enough information, evidence, and practical elements that can raise the article to at least 20-24 pages in which you can expose practical elements, measurements, and even online documentation, the article can be taken into account.

The references are inaccurate and insufficient.

An analysis of the content and a correction of the writing errors is necessary

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors made a series of corrections that positively affect the content and meaning of the article. The article shows the problem that occurs in the countries of the European Union with cars. I would ask the authors to redraft the theoretical part, it should not be forgotten that this part of the article must have references to the literature. The information provided in the introduction must be consistent with the literature. Any own thoughts that the authors consider necessary and are not supported by literature, please move to discussion or conclusions. Verses 88 to 93 should be supported by literature. Verses 101 to 119 should be supported by literature. Verses 131 to 137 should be supported by literature

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Reviewer 3 Report

I have nothing to object to this time, the article has been substantially improved and fully respects the observations I had the first time.

 

Now the article has a much more distinct approach, much clearer and extremely airy in the presentation of the subject.

 

The novelty elements are found and presented appropriately by the authors, clearly mentioning aspects related to practical approaches from the private area.

 

Perhaps a review of the text and a thorough analysis of it, to which more readability of the figures can be added, would crown the entire effort of the authors.

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