Researching Driver Drowsiness Technology for Trucking Industry

Great idea. More cattle prods for the stupid drivers.

 

Heck if only 3% of fatal accidents they figure are caused by drowsiness they need to quit worrying about it

 

What my esteemed colleague has correctly assessed, is todays truck driver is inundated with a plethora of half engineered devices that not only do not work as intended, but often times make truck driving more dangerous and less productive.

The issue with "driver drowsiness" has to do entirely with problems of management in the front office. No mater the engineering, no gizmo you put on a truck will solve the problem. Instead it will provide a false assurance to the desk jockeys that a driver can work at their command without regard to public safety.

Will it such a device be affective? No, most likely not.

Will truck drivers like it or use it? No, it will be another in a long line of devices the will be a safety nuisance.

So, can you sell a product intended to alleviate the threat of 'driver drowsiness?' Most defiantly you can. But, you will be better designing a wi-fi or cellular operated cattle-prod for trucking companies and dispatchers to use on their drivers. That is what they really want.

 

Thing is, the technology [I assume] is a camera tied to facial recognition and head/eye position awareness software and alerts when a problem is detected. However, textin, browsing, etc will also trigger alarms. So, the "safety device" will soon be disabled

 

How bout pay the drivers more and not make them run 14 hours a day to exhaustion in order to survive?

 

You and everyone else knows no matter HOW MUCH is paid, there's always those who want more and will push and exceed whatever limits that may be imposed in search of the almighty dollar.

It's human nature, especially in the USA. And I also contend that for many, the higher the pay rate, the more hours they will direct to the job.

 

How bout if want to work 18 hours a day mind your own dam business I get more sleep when I'm on the road than I do at home. That's what most of us have a problem with, we're hundreds of miles from home there isn't much to do and for some reason people who've never pulled a trailer with their lawnmower think they know more about it than we do

 

I don’t know who pissed in your Cheerios but #### lol. Maybe you’re just cranky from being tired If you wanna run 18 a day feel free just dont kill anybody.

 

Strange how nobody worries about police officers driving around for 12 hours a day or more