Survey for high school technology class about driving at night

Purchase a vehicle that detected animals??? Your going to have to tag all animals to make it work. Nothing more annoying to us than have another alarm go off while trying to work.

 

In fact animal collisions is primarily wildlife. In western maryland and lower sw PA alone there are 200,000 plus deer as of 30 years ago, God only knows how many they are now. You will never tag em all.

Animal deaths is part and parcel of trucking, Remember that you will kill them to preserve the rig and it's cargo by holding your lane and not going into a wreck. (And it will....)

I do not do surveys but my position is the same as it was 40 years ago, if a animal got loose onto the pavement well... that's tough. If I have time I'll adjust the wheel for a instakill so it does not suffer what is coming under the rig. I have done at least that much.

The more alarms you add to a big truck is just going to bury the driver in information overload. I remember one situation northbound 15 next to the River in PA above Harrisburg in the fog. There was a thump on my cabover right front in the night and I saw 4 legs of a family poodle go flying dead as a rock. I was about 60 or so, the fog was the kind that was about 5 foot to the ground not a problem that night then. But it's dead and that's that. Not intentional.

If there was a alarm that blared in my ear or whatever the situation is over with still a dead animal that escaped it's front yard. Toss it.

The more they try to pile on technological crap into vehicles the more I push back. If my grandma had wheels she be a wagon.

I hate to be so hard, but again, if I had a choice between taking a animal or trying to avoid it and taking out a house with a family inside? HA that animal is already dead, it's a matter of how it's going to pass on, short or slow.

 

seems most truck drivers have alarms going off all the time and it drives them nuts. Too many false positives or they just beep at a situation that an alert driver is already aware of.

You can bet none of them are going to want to add yet another beeper.

There was one thread about Carbon monoxide alarms that seemed to be well received, provided it wasn’t too sensitive.

 

Indiana Toll Road spent $millions putting up an animal warning system some years ago. Total abysmal failure. You can see the remnants of the equipment on the side of the road now. Do a google search on that and see how the technology failed.
Let's say you get a warning. Let's say you correct your trajectory to avoid the object. The system has no idea what else is in the immediate vicinity, so you wind up missing the deer and running into the path of another vehicle or losing control and flipping over in the ditch, or worse.
Every defensive driving course I am aware of advises the driver to make no fast evasive moves in this situation. An alarm system would be counter to that policy.

 

I wish deer had better insurance.

Can we work on that?

 

I point out something else that's obsolete. There is a series of microwave towers along that route that relays Stock and Commodities exchanges between Chicago and NYC which for it's day offered very fast service.

It's too slow these days when you consider both Fiber Optic, Multi freq hopping satellites and line of sight lasers now offering really fast slices of time in services by computer trading.

 

I hit a deer once in a 2week old pickup(mine not the deers) when the cops show up I was naturally a lil pissy,made some comment about since we have to buy tags for deer season that they should be considered state property and the state should be responsible for fixing my truck.the old cop that showed up looked at me and never missed a beat saying I was probably right but then instead of being there to help me he'd be writing a destruction of state property ticket...lol ya just can't win

 

There should be a law requiring deer to have bells on so we can hear them when they’re nearby.

 

I’ve hit 2 deer and 1 nissan stanza going the wrong way.

The driver of the stanza was 28 and worked at a home depot, march 1997. I was driving a greyhound.

There was a cross in the median for several years where he died.

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