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Lane Safety Systems * USA - FMCSA has eye on
LDWS are not yet the industry norm, but fleets that spec them say they can't image fleet life without the technologyWashington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking -21 Mar 2007: -- U.S. federal trucking regulators are taking a keen interest in new lane departure warning technology as a way to mitigate the rate of off-road accidents and rollovers on North American highways... Yesterday, Amy Houser of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration discussed some findings from recent field operational tests in heavy commercial trucks, which were part of the Department of Transport's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative program... The pilot project, which focused mainly on roadway departures on both straight and curbed roads with a fleet of Mack trucks, found that lane departure warning systems (LDWS) reduce single vehicle roadway departures (where the truck veers off the road) were reduced by 21 to 24 percent. Also, the FMCSA realized a potential 17 to 21-percent reduction in rollover crashes... Utilizing optical, electromagnetic, or GPS technology, LDWS are in-vehicle devices that warn a driver of a lane departure with either a loud alarm or by mimicking a "rumble strip" vibration...
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