[fusion_builder_container type=”flex” hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” parallax_speed=”0.3″ video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” border_style=”solid”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” spacing=”yes” background_repeat=”no-repeat” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” center_content=”no” last=”true” hover_type=”none” border_sizes_top=”” border_sizes_bottom=”” border_sizes_left=”” border_sizes_right=”” min_height=”” link=”” background_blend_mode=”overlay” first=”true”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hue=”” saturation=”” lightness=”” alpha=”” content_alignment_medium=”” content_alignment_small=”” content_alignment=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” sticky_display=”normal,sticky” class=”” id=”” margin_top=”” margin_right=”” margin_bottom=”” margin_left=”” fusion_font_family_text_font=”” fusion_font_variant_text_font=”” font_size=”” line_height=”” letter_spacing=”” text_transform=”none” text_color=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””]This is a “forward collision avoidance and mitigation braking” system.
When radar and sensors detect a slow-moving vehicle or stopped car ahead, the “F-CAM” system warns the truck driver.
If the driver doesn’t brake, the system takes over to avoid an imminent rear-end crash.
Crash-avoidance braking is a standard safety feature in almost all new cars.
It’s a standard safety feature in a new Toyota.
But not on heavy tractor-trailers, which can weigh 30 times more than a car, and take much longer to stop.
Requiring this brake technology in trucks could prevent 2,500 truck crashes a year, and hundreds of crash deaths.
2,500 truck crashes could be prevented, every year.
The economic benefit of preventing those accidents crashes: over $3 billion, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.
In Europe, these emergency braking systems will be required in all new trucks by November 2015.
Some U.S. trucking carriers use crash-avoidance braking systems voluntarily. Ted Scott, director of engineering for the American Trucking Association said, “many of our companies using them are seeing some significant safety advantages.”
So why aren’t collision-avoidance braking systems mandatory in commercial semi-trucks in the U.S.?
Why we stopped talking about “truck accidents”
We changed the language on TruckingWatchdog.
Most crashes are both predictable, and preventable. When we call these events “accidents”, we are absolving the driver of responsibility.
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