Thread: One for the truck drivers

New smart steering wheels monitor heart rate to target truck driver fatigue - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The idea's good but I think they're pushing it into the wrong market. Most of the truckies that I know know when they're tired and they don't push on just for the love of it. Maybe they should try marketing it to a government department to get it made compulsory fitment to certain trucks and next time said truck is inspected not only can the inspectors download info on the driveline for errors, they can plug into the steering wheel and tell you that you drove for say 54 minutes at an average speed of 73km/h while the computer was saying no, irrespective of how many rest areas you drove through that were full of grey nomads and hippy vans cashing in on the free amenities. It might be a pipe dream but I reckon the resources would have been better spent towards sorting out a better set of "workplace standards", freight rates or whatever it takes so these blokes don't have to push so hard in the first place. Just my 2 bobs worth.