Tag: advanced driver assist systems

Overdrive Radio

Engineering realities v. hyperactive marketing: The ‘driverless’ trucking future explored

The Overdrive Radio podcast transports you like so many teleporting time machines back to the Aug. 22 panel at GATS about the $64,000 question: What’s the role of the driver look like at it changes over time with increasingly advanced layers of auto-assist technology?

September 6, 2019

Overdrive Extra

A litigious argument for collision mitigation

So goes the frustrated mind: collision-mitigation technology is “determining when I should increase my following distance, when I should change lanes, and when I should apply the brakes – oftentimes doing it for me.” Clifford Petersen has learned to work with his system, though it’s not all roses and can present dangerous situations. He’s hopeful about one aspect of it, though. …

November 27, 2018

Business

An ELD positive, an hours negative, and more from trucking’s present and perhaps stormy future

CEO of Load One along with a panel of industry experts spoke about the positives of ELDs, an hours negative, and trucking's present and perhaps stormy future.

July 25, 2018

Business

Avoiding ‘false alerts’: Primer on the driver-assist systems increasingly common in Class 8s

Bendix’s Fred Andersky presented on what to expect from driver-assistance systems, including crash-mitigation features, as they develop. That includes perhaps the biggest issue drivers have with such systems at present: false, and annoying, alerts.

March 23, 2018

Channel 19

Round-up: Best safety device — you; Answering an ELD-exemption question

No safety tech can be an effective substitute for the ship captain: “No matter how fancy [your truck], no matter how new, the best safety device in your truck is you.” –Reader Paul Maine ALSO: Isolated farm-equipment haul prompts ELD mandate question.

February 5, 2018