Element Fleet Management Names John Wall SVP & CTO
Element Fleet Management announced the appointment of John Wall to senior vice president and chief technology officer. In this role, Wall is responsible for the vision and strategy behind Element’s technology direction and innovation.
“This is an incredible time for technology in the fleet space and I’m thrilled to be joining the Element team,” said Wall. “We will focus on addressing our clients’ evolving needs and empowering them to utilize solutions that will improve their business.”
Key Metrics for NAFA’s Sustainable Fleet Accreditation Program
NAFA’s Sustainable Fleet Accreditation Program uses various key metrics to help evaluate your fleet’s performance — especially metrics that measure fuel burn and emissions.
Empowering Drivers Via New Technology
When it comes to empowering drivers via mobile technology, Donlen is at the forefront of this fantastic testing ground that we call the fleet industry.
Center for Automated Road Transportation Safety Launched
The achievement of the Center’s mission will be through the use of automated collision avoidance technologies that fundamentally go beyond crash mitigation, the principal conventional focus of highway safety, to crash avoidance.
By Dr. Alain L. Kornhauser
After more than three years of planning and several major meetings, the substantive launch of the Center for Automated Road Transportation Safety @ Fort Monmouth (CARTS@FM) occurred this week with the creation of the governing non-profit (501(c) (6)) New Jersey Corporation.
The mission of this Center is to substantially improve safety on our existing conventional roadway infrastructure through the use of inexpensive automated collision avoidance systems installed on individual vehicles operating harmoniously with conventional vehicles throughout most, if not all, existing roadways. The scope of CARTS’s mission is across all modes that utilize the nation’s conventional road system: trucks, buses and cars.
Google Autonomous Vehicle Suffers 1st Injury Accident
Sometimes, it seems, there’s nothing that even the smartest cars can do. Yet again, a Google autonomous vehicle was rear-ended, apparently due to a distracted driver. The 14th accident involving one of the self-driving vehicles, it also marked the first involving injuries.
The July 1 crash occurred near the tech giant’s home of Mountain View, California, and saw three employees in the autonomous vehicle go to the hospital due to what’s been described as “minor” whiplash. The driver of the other vehicle also suffered some minor injuries.
“The clear theme is human error and inattention,” Chris Urmson, head of the Google autonomous vehicle program, wrote on his blog. “We’ll take all this as a signal that we’re starting to compare favorably with human drivers.”
