Truck News: Can a high-tech wristband measure driver fatigue and predict crashes?
Julia Kuzeljevich writes:
Managing fatigue has always been an issue in the trucking industry, all the more so as the professional driver population ages.
According to data from the 2011 National Household Survey report, the average truck driver age is actually 46 years, four years older than that of the average worker at 41.5 years.
the industry, but are they enough to determine where the problem areas can and do occur?
In terms of getting aggregate data on how tired drivers are, some companies whose employees perform shift work are testing technology such as that developed by Vancouver, B.C.’s Fatigue Science, a technology start-up that makes a wristband to measure the sleep patterns of the user and to predict levels of fatigue and alertness during their waking hours…
