Barry Lunn opens up his laptop in my back garden and shows me a sneak peek of his new business. Called Provizio, it is trying to solve a problem that sadly takes more than one million lives a year, and costs economies trillions of dollars: road deaths. The Limerick-born entrepreneur, who turned 42 this year, is trying to stop road deaths using the kind of advanced technology used to fire missiles, land spaceships on other planets, and keep satellites in the air. Up until a few weeks ago, I had barely heard of Lunn. But as he takes me though…

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