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TRUCKMAKERS' NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Sweden - Volvo: Tests With Tired Drivers Increase Traffic Safety
Stockholm,Sweden -VOLVO PressRelease/Business Wire -28 Feb 2008: -- Today, the Swedish government approved a request for special permission to drive on public roadways with fatigued drivers. This decision means that Volvo Trucks’ work with a safety system that alerts tired drivers can enter the final phase. Fatigue and inattentiveness, as well as alcohol, are the most common causes of traffic accidents... Research shows that driver fatigue is the cause of 20% or more of the accidents that occur in traffic. This fact is a driving force behind Volvo Trucks’ development of new safety functions for trucks... The safety function that Volvo Trucks would now like to test is based on a system that monitors the way in which the driver operates the vehicle. If the driver becomes inattentive, the vehicle’s pattern of movement changes. This is registered by the system and the driver is alerted...
* Volvo Group CEO to Present CO2-Neutral Trucks
Wien,Austria -PR-Inside.com/Pressemitteilung/Business Wire -27 Feb 2008: -- Leif Johansson to Present Seven Heavy-Duty Trucks, Each Powered by a Different Renewable Fuel and Rated as CO2-Neutral; Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) to Host Volvo Fleet Introduction... The unveiling of CO2-neutral renewable fuel trucks - 7 trucks operating on 7 renewable fuels. Special Presentation by Leif Johansson, CEO of the VOLVO Group has already demonstrated its ability to develop vehicles for all of the renewable fuel options discussed here. However, the development of carbon dioxide-neutral transport will not happen on its own - nor can we do it alone...
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