Using AI to combat fatigue in truck drivers

A three-month trial of Guardian by Seeing Machines cameras in six of its truck and trailer combinations identified instances of driver fatigue, leading the company to implement the technology across their entire fleet of over 200 vehicles.

Hilton Haulage GM Safety, Quality and Compliance Tom Bryant, says Guardian cameras are now a non-negotiable in all of their trucks, much like airbags and seatbelts. “We initiated an initial three-month trial not because we thought we had a fatigue issue, but because safety is one of our core values and the technology was out there,” Bryant says. “We hadn’t had an event, but what we identified from the cameras was that people were experiencing microsleeps.”

Guardian By Seeing Machines are in-cab cameras that use AI to track driver eye movements and identify driver fatigue and distraction. Proven to reduce fatigue-related events by up to 90 percent, if a driver falls asleep or has a microsleep, their seat will shake and an in-cab alarm will sound to wake them up. “We had some guys who were clearly fatigued, having microsleeps driving down the road, which was a real eye-opener for us.”

The results prompted Hilton Haulage to expand the six unit trial to 22 units across the fleet.

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