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Tag: driver-facing cameras
Voices
35-year trucker Joe Bartlette got a seatbelt ticket — until this video got it thrown out
There’s several ways to contest a ticket received at the roadside, chief and perhaps most effective among them just having video or other evidence that clearly refutes whatever the officer is claiming. … Cue the case of Decker Truck Line hauler Joe Bartlette of Grandville, Mich.
March 20, 2019
Business
Penske Logistics adds driver-facing, road-facing cameras to trucks
The new cameras only record if triggered by an event while the truck is in use. The cameras add to Penske’s existing safety technologies, including backup alarms, collision avoidance and lane departure systems, stability control systems and more.
April 3, 2018
Business
SmartDrive multi-cam video platform to detect fatigue/distraction
SmartDrive’s new SmartSense for Distracted Driving program, available in Q1 2018, employs video/processing power to detect “distraction, inattention or drowsiness.” When the system does, it “triggers a video, which is prioritized and offloaded for immediate verification and intervention.”
October 31, 2017
Business
Guardian camera system/Geotab integration
The Guardian system by Seeing Machines, which combines road- and driver-facing cameras with processing power to detect signs of fatigue and/or distraction, is now available as an add-in on telematics/ELD provider Geotab’s marketplace for third-party tools.
October 17, 2017
Channel 19
Driver-facing cams an invasion of privacy? Answers at Real Women in Trucking’s GATS legal Q&A
In a word, if the driver agrees to work for the company providing the equipment, no. Attorney Paul Taylor: “Should drivers do something about it? Yeah, they should — to a certain extent, drivers have to quit working for bad companies.”
August 29, 2017
Channel 19
Fatigue detection — where some driver-facing camera techs are headed
Advancement in camera techs are headed down a path toward, in various ways, what might seem to be a safety holy grail: being able to deliver observations of drivers and context around events where fatigue is at issue — and assist drivers themselves in taking action. Do you have experience with these techs’ in-cab-warning predecessors?
August 11, 2017
Voices
POLL: Do you run with a dashcam or other camera on the truck?
Do you run with a dashcam or other camera system on the truck? Weigh in here.
July 20, 2017
Channel 19
Thursday round-up: Supply chain mandating ELDs?, Wal-Mart moving toward cab cameras, nolo contendere for operator
Reporting out of Arkansas: Wal-Mart’s private fleet begins to test in-cab camera systems. Howard Salmon pleas out from under a following-too-close citation. And: one regular reader calls foul on the notion that brokers/shippers will require ELDs in contracts for exempt truckers post-mandate.
December 15, 2016
Business
New ‘always-on’ in-cab video system
Lytx, maker of the DriveCam system of forward- and in-cab-facing video systems capturing events by triggers, is now offering what it calls an “always-on,” cloud-based video platform called Unisyn.
September 29, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Big data at ‘tipping point’ for new safety applications
Fatigue management and monitoring techs will become, over the next 30 years, ubiquitous in fleet trucks — even, says safety expert Don Osterberg, in owner-operated units.
April 7, 2016
Business
The 500 million dollar question
“Since when were the words ‘safety’ and ‘revenue’ interchangeable? Oh that’s right, I forgot. They became interchangeable the minute safety became a billion-dollar business.”
February 26, 2016
Business
Driver avoids rear-end accident — without spilling a drop of coffee
At once, the driver was focused on the car that cut him off. If he’d been watching up ahead, the hard-braking event that triggered the camera and the subsequent jump up onto a curb might have also been avoided.
October 7, 2015
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