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>>"One of the safety improvements we’ve made this year is rolling out industry-leading telematics and camera-based safety technology across our delivery fleet,"
by toss1 5y ago
>>"One of the safety improvements we’ve made this year is rolling out industry-leading telematics and camera-based safety technology across our delivery fleet," Alexandra Miller, a spokesperson for Amazon told Motherboard. "This technology provides drivers real-time alerts to help them stay safe when they are on the road."
Just because it is "industry leading" does NOT mean that it is worth a pile of rat sh*t.
>> (in whiteboard photo) Signals that trigger... WITHOUT audio alerts: Hard Braking, Hard Acceleration, High G forces, Hard Cornering..
All of these are COMPLETELY AMBIGUOUS and depend entirely on the driver's skill. In inexperienced drivers with low situational awareness and poor car control, they indicate likely hazard. BUT in highly skilled drivers, higher values on every one of these, right up to the limit of adhesion, and the ability to maintain high values without breaking adhesion, SIGNIFY THE HIGHEST SKILL LEVELS.
The actual indication of skill is not the dynamic range of acceleration, braking, and cornering G forces, but smooth application, generally low, but when needed going right up to the adhesion limit and not going over, and thus not hitting something or being hit.
But obviously neither Amazon nor this Netradyne company who supposedly specializes in driving metrics has a fkn clue about what they are doing.
>> (in whiteboard photo) Signals that trigger... WITHOUT audio alerts: DRIVER DROWSINESS
Not alert on Driver Drowsiness - WTAF!?! If there is one thing on which a driver monitoring system should make an alert, it is driver drowsiness - [wake 'em up] or [stop the vehicle]. How are they even stupid enough to consider this a silent event?
And people wonder why the formerly highly respected technology industry is rapidly losing it's esteem in the general population.