Safety technology poll

System Engineers will tell you that any system that is giving 95% false alarms is not helping. It's training the operator (driver) to ignore it. My automatic braking activates in error at least once a month unexpectedly. So far it's not attempted a panic stop while the roads are both wet/slippery and my truck is loaded and/or in a curve. But it's only a matter of time. My company has their own 911 system. I've started calling in each event saying "my truck just tried to kill me." I know it won't do any good, but I'm hoping to generate a record so it can be resolved one day, or my relatives get rich. Just driving under an overpass or highway sign or beside a guardrail should not cause a fatal truck crash.

 

That system on my truck forces me to attempt a pass at least 500 feet before reaching a slightly slower vehicle in my lane, unless I override it. If I have to override it for a safer pass, it's not doing it's job. That's me jumping out into the passing lane almost 1/8 of a mile before the vehicle I'm passing. That guarantees and teaches 4-wheelers to "shoot the gap" and pass me on the right lane at a high rate of speed approaching a slower vehicle.

 

Our safety department let the cat out of the bag at our last safety meeting a while back when he sad that the reason all of our new Volvo’s have all of the newest sensors, is to help Volvo with their driverless truck studies and development.
So were helping to put ourselves out of work.

 

It'd be pretty cool if all of yall quit. Even better if those Volvos put him out of business.

 

Yeah, you kinda swung and missed there. I'd like for him to quit so he would screw his company over, I'd like for volvo to put the owner out of business with faulty equipment since Volvo's intention is to put drivers out of jobs and the owner is complicit with the testing.

I don't have anything against truck drivers, seeing as I did a 600 mile drop and hook today.