Technologies in trucks for safety

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Once a technical innovation has been introduced, people usually become dependent on it, so that they can never again do without it, unless it is replaced by some still more advanced innovation

 

I think its obvious to everyone now that the so called "safety technologies" in trucks are really a scam. Crude products, not yet ready for mainstream deployment. You have been using drivers as non-consensual guinea pigs. This is the ethics of people in tech. People in cubicles that have never driven trucks writing software that is just an approximation and incapable of understanding context, so the AI camera alerts to a driver looking out the window because he is backing up, or goes off for following too closely when a 4 wheeler cuts a truck off. Scummy tech salespeople advertise the "safety features" as the next great thing to make sales, but in the real world innocent, hard working drivers have lost jobs or been run off. Off course we know better than to expect you to feel remorse for the lives of truck drivers that you have ruined because we all know your real desire is the elimination of drivers. I'm a Christian but my blood isn't going to wash away any sins, so don't expect me to cooperate with my own execution.
What I think of your safety features is you are scum bags sticking your noses into other people's business, making claims that aren't true to sell your less than adequate products, and causing negative impacts on the lives of innocent people so you can put some shekels in your pockets. Not the sort of character I want to associate with, I do honest work for an honest wage and people are better off for the work I do.

 

Ethical development model would be something like:
Software companies partner with a truck manufacturer and mega carrier using those trucks.
Get CONSENT from mega carrier driver volunteers to help develop.
Deploy engineers from both truck maker and software developer, along with experienced drivers to safety department of mega carrier to monitor alerts and do non-disciplinary interviews with drivers that have alerts triggered to refine the safety products to the point the are functional, reliable and ready for widespread deployment.
But this would take some effort, and cost some money and time investment, so ethics go right out the window when there exists an opportunity to get around this just by abusing innocent, hard working drivers.

 

I consider all of them 'driver distraction devices'. Companies would be better served by hiring properly trained professional drivers instead of hiring seat warmers from the local CDL license mills then putting them in these trucks that have more sound effects than a mall video arcade. If I could disable all of them without being fired they would have already been gone.

 

I’ll answer this question, even though I detect an AI bot.

I’ve driven 46 years commercially OTR. This so called safety crap showed up in force 10 years ago. Let’s do some simple math. The first 36 years of my driving career was done safely, on time with numerous inspections and no tickets. The last 10 years, I’ve been able to do the same thing as my first 36 years. The difference for me is plain and simple. I have had a constant headache listening to this garbage the last 10 years all the while having the same impeccable record. So, you tell me and the rest of us what we think about it. Meanwhile, I need to go take a few more aspirin for this headache.

 

I don’t think he likes them.
got a written warning from safety?

 

Since I'm an independent, I don't deal with that nonsense. I refuse to purchase any equipment that is saddled with it. When I was a company driver, I would quit a job because they implemented that garbage. And if at some point it becomes mandatory in all trucks I will hang it up and say goodbye to the industry. I've already got more than 30 years on my resume. Quitting a few years early won't matter.

 

I started my 44 years in 1969. I didn't have ac, power steering, air seats, bunk or computers to go with all the sensors. The paper logs were just fine as was sleeping on a piece of plywood. Most drivers back then were more courteous and safely minded without auto trans or some new fangled gadget telling him how to drive a truck.

 

The ONLY thing I like is the following distance sensors that let me see on the dash the speed of vehicle ahead of me.
The R lane departure is OK if it is not to sensitive or loud.