Drivers Are Less Accepting of Lane-Centering Safety Technology
Automated technologies may take the stress and boredom out of the daily commute, but current systems designed to keep vehicles from drifting over the center line or onto the shoulder still don't all work well enough to inspire trust.
Drivers have to accept assistive technologies and use them correctly in order to make driving safer. Some drivers in the IIHS study felt insulted when the car made corrective choices for them.
"Across all the vehicles we tested, the drivers had more faith in the automated systems' ability to maintain a steady speed and a safe distance from the vehicle ahead of them than their ability to keep them safely in the center of their lane," says IIHS Senior Research Scientist Ian Reagan.
Read the article at IIHS.
Is Your Driver Safety Program Too Formal?
By Ed Dubens, CEO / Founder of eDriving
Of course, the effective management of driver risk requires a “formal” structured approach, but there is also plenty of room for informality!
Policies, standards, management systems, best practice guides, training, eLearning, license checking, telematics, benchmarking and analytics are all critical components to any successful driver risk management strategy, but how much more effective can you be if your plan is supported by regular, informal messaging to your drivers from across the organization?
Will 2020 Be The Year Of Level 3 ‘Eyes-Off’ Driving?
We are now seeing SAE Level 2 systems defined as the vehicle that is able to control both the steering and acceleration/ deceleration ADAS capabilities.
Although this allows the vehicle to automate certain parts of the driving experience, the driver remains in complete control of the vehicle at all times.
Level 3 is a system that allows “hands off, feet off, eyes off” with “brain on” so that hands, feet, and eyes are readily available. Intense development of Level 3 human-machine interfaces has been underway for years.
Read the article at Forbes.
Warn Fleet Drivers About the Surge in Red Light-Running Fatalities
By Mark Boada, Executive Editor
What’s the first road safety lesson you remember receiving?
Mine – delivered over and over again by my parents and teachers in elementary school – is “Look both ways before crossing the street.”
Kids, of course, are impulsive and often oblivious to roadway hazards. They chase balls, pets and other kids, and jump out into the street from between cars. But by the time we’re teenagers, though, most of us have learned to heed the lesson. Then, we go for our drivers’ license, and the lesson is expanded: “Always look both ways before crossing an intersection.”
This lesson is so fundamental, that it’s nothing short of shocking for this observer to learn that red light-running deaths have hit a 10-year high.
Tesla’s ‘Smart Summon’ Flunks Its Launch
By Michael Sheldrick
Only the most quotidian fleet manager might not dream of the possibility of an autonomous, or even better, a self-driving car.
Not only might TCO be sliced, by various features, imagine the productivity boosts that could result from what in effect would be a rolling office.
But that dream suffered a serious set back last week when Tesla again pushed the boundaries of this still-nascent realm by introducing Smart Summon, a feature that turns the car into a robot valet, bringing it to its owner.
Forgive the cliche, but what could go wrong? Almost everything, it turns out
