Eye in the cab can stop truck drivers dozing off

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2919, 2013, pág. 23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A drowsy driver at the wheel of a three-storey-high, 400-ton open-cast mining truck can ram other vehicles or turn the multimillion-dollar machines over, causing death and mayhem. Not for much longer: a drowsiness detector in the cab has proved so successful that US-based firm Caterpillar is fitting the $10,000 system in all its mining trucks. The Fatigue Monitoring System from Seeing Machines of Canberra in Australia, is designed to prevent accidents caused by tiredness, which account for 70% of those where the driver was to blame.