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FATIGUE MONITORING * USA - Board presses for mandatory devices in trucks
Washington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -5 Feb 2009: -- The National Transportation Safety Board recommended this week that the DOT explore making several heavy-duty vehicle safety technologies mandatory, including fatigue monitoring systems... The recommendations come in response to an October 2005 accident on I-94 in Wisconsin where a tractor-trailer rolled over and a motorcoach ran into the wreckage... Four passengers and the bus driver had fatal injuries, and 35 other passengers were injured... The investigation revealed that the truck driver was fatigued and fell asleep at the wheel... Possible technologies that could have helped in this instance, the NTSB noted, included lane departure warning systems, driver monitoring systems such as PERCLOS (which measures the rate of eyelid closure), and electronic onboard recorders...
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