And So It Begins

Airline pilots aren't under so much scrutiny. A camera watching me drive..... Sorry... Just a bit to Orwellian for me. I would have to draw the line on that also.

Airline pilots aren't under so much scrutiny. A camera watching me drive..... Sorry... Just a bit to Orwellian for me. I would have to draw the line on that also.

Haha just give them a nice money shot and they will want no part of that camera. Look boss! My @$$!

I was hoping to get responses from actual users... And did. I appreciate the feed back and really hope my colleagues are not "yes men" and truly put this crap to rest in our company. Time will tell.

I started driving in '93 and I can honestly say I can't think of a single "safety device" they've come out with in 20 years for trucks that has helped much of anything. I seriously think the actual rumble strips have probably saved countless lives over the years. Those are a simple, effective solution to someone who falls asleep at the wheel or is distracted by something and doesn't realize they're drifting onto the shoulder.

The collision-avoidance stuff - complete garbage. The lane departure stuff - complete garbage. If you want to have truly effective collision avoidance technology you have to be able to determine accurately which objects are actually vehicles. The only way you can do that is for all vehicles to be able to communicate with each other and detect signals coming off each other. If you want truly effective lane departure technology you have to know for a fact where the lanes are. The only way you can do that is to put some type of sensors in the roadways.

This type of technology is totally doable and someday it might get done. But I had cr*p beeping at me for 15 years and none if it was worth a nickel.

I'm all about safety and I know these technologies can be made useful but there are a lot of missing steps that have to be taken and nobody seems prepared to do that anytime soon.

Brett, as usual well thought out and informative. I love this website!!!! :-)