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Jun 15, 2013

TRUCKS' NEW SAFETY SYSTEMS * USA

* Ohio - Bendix touting next-generation safety system

(Photo: Bendix Wingman ACB -Active Cruise with Braking- for commercial vehicles is an adaptive cruise control system that provides visual and audible warnings, reduces the throttle and engages the brakes when the distance between a truck and the vehicle it is following starts to close) 
Elyria,OH,USA -Truck News -Jun 13, 2013: -- Bendix is claiming its next-generation commercial vehicle safety system will offer features “never before possible for commercial vehicles in North America ” ... The system is being developed with suppliers including TRW and Mobileye and will be available through truck OEMs... Bendix says it will dramatically enhance features currently available in driver assistance systems, such as collision mitigation... The vision aspect will utilize a TRW camera adapted for use by Bendix and powered by the Mobileye System-on-Chip EyeQ2 processor, which Bendix says offers state-of-the-art algorithms...


* Michigan - Meritor Wabco says study shows collision mitigation systems save lives

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Troy,MICH,USA -Truck News (CAN) -Jun 13, 2013: -- Meritor Wabco says a new study validates the life-saving potential of its collision mitigation system... The study, by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found Meritor Wabco’s OnGuard collision mitigation system would have been able to eliminate 24% of fatalities and 23% of injuries resulting from actual truck crashes analyzed in the study... The study also looked at next-generation collision mitigation systems, and found that fatality reductions using the next version of the system could reduce fatalities by 44% and injuries by 46%... Looking further down the road, “future-generation CMS” could generate an estimated reduction of 57% in fatalities and 56% in injuries, the study found. And if all straight trucks and tractor semi-trailers used the systems, the combined economic savings could total $1.4 billion for current systems, $2.6 billion for next-generation systems and $3.1 for future-generation systems... Also, a comparison between a fleet with and without collision mitigation technology showed fleets without CMS were 2.26 times more likely to be the striking vehicle in a rear-end crash than trucks equipped with collision mitigation systems...


* DC - 42% of settlements paid by carriers for accidents exceed insurance requirements, alliance says

(Photo from The Trucker/Associated Press/Cincinatti Enquirer, by Cara Owsley - Semi-trucks and other vehicles involved in a mulit-car crash are strewn across westbound Interstate 275 between Colerain Avenue and Hamilton Avenue Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 in Cincinnati. The accident left about 20 people injured) Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker News Services -14 June 2013: -- Forty two percent of the dollar settlements paid by trucking companies to motorists injured in accidents may exceed the federal government’s minimum insurance requirement for trucking companies, according to a study conducted recently by the Alliance for Driver Safety and Security Inc. (Trucking Alliance)... The alliance is a coalition of trucking companies including Maverick Transportation, Knight Transportation, J.B. Hunt, Dupré, Boyle Transportation, Fikes Truck Line and Schneider National... Through MAP-21, the surface transportation bill, Congress has mandated that the Department of Transportation evaluate the adequacy of the $750,000 minimum level of insurance required of motor carriers, an amount that has not been adjusted in more than 30 years, despite inflation and escalating medical costs... To conduct its own study, member companies of the Trucking Alliance voluntarily tracked 8,692 accident settlements between 2005 and 2011... The data shows that if all the trucking companies in the study had maintained the minimum $750,000 insurance requirement, 42.0 percent of their monetary exposure from these settlements would have exceeded their insurance coverage... Additionally, the study showed that of the settlements that exceeded $750,000 of insurance, the uninsured liability exposure ranged from 37.5 percent at the $1 million insurance level down to 17.7 percent at $4 million of insurance coverage...

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