How to Get Your Driver Risk Management Program Funded
By Sarah Bechtold, Senior Vice President, Global Driver Risk Management, eDriving
Whatever the size of your fleet, a formal, comprehensive safety program is important.
Official statistics remind us regularly that vehicle crashes are a common cause of work-related injuries and fatalities, and we know that such crashes are very costly for organizations. According to the latest NETS report, on-the-job highway crashes cost employers $26,081 per crash, $66,119 per million miles of travel, and $78,418 per injury.
A comprehensive driver risk management program addresses employers’ responsibilities to keep those driving for work purposes safe. But there’s one common hurdle that can prove the biggest challenge for organizations: getting the program funded.
Donlen Proud to Be Part of the Climate Group’s EV100
Donlen has solidified its commitment to electric vehicle adoption by joining the Climate Group’s EV100, which is a group of companies dedicated to shaping the market for EVs by building demand and establishing electro-mobility as a mainstream transport solution.
FMCs, EVs and Residual Values
As electric vehicles become more commonplace, is your fleet management company taking a look at the risks that might ensue due to changes in residual values?
Waymo Sends Lidar-Equipped Vans to Map New York City
Autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo will soon venture out of its comfort zone and begin sending its Lidar-equipped Chrysler Pacifica minivans to New York City.
While New Yorkers might start to see one of the five hybrid minivans circling the streets of Manhattan in the near future, they won't be able to flag one down like they can a Yellow Cab, as Waymo isn't there to pick up passengers—at least not yet. Instead, the Google-born spinoff is sending a small fleet to roam the densely-populated city in order to map its complex traffic patterns and better improve its service, it claims.
For Waymo, mapping has always been a critical part of training its self-driving model. Even from the beginning (before Google was in the picture), Waymo's founders Sebastian Thrun and Anthony Levandowski used car-mounted cameras for initial research on image-based street mapping. And Waymo's newest mission in New York is no different, though maybe a bit more mature.
Read the article at The Drive.
Tesla Opens Superchargers to Other EV Brands in Pilot Project
The California automaker just changed its rules to allow drivers of other companies' EVs to use the Tesla Supercharger at just 10 locations in the Netherlands.
This makes sense for two reasons. First, Holland leads the EU in charging stations per capita with almost 75,000 stations, almost a third of the amount in the entire EU, from all charging providers, lightening the immediate load on these stations.
Second, the European Union has been talking about requiring EV chargers there to be compatible with all modern EVs for years now. While Tesla EVs and Superchargers in the U.S. still use Tesla's proprietary connector, Tesla has shifted to selling vehicles with a CCS connector in Europe.
Read the article at Car and Driver.
