Easter travel, disrupted sleep and shifting daylight hours are set to collide in a perfect storm on New Zealand roads this long weekend - a period already associated with heightened road trauma.

AutoSense, a leading New Zealand provider of fleet and driver safety solutions, is strengthening its presence in Australia with the launch of LifeSaver Mobile, a first-of-its-kind app designed to stop distracted driving before it starts.

Mobile-phone distraction remains one of the biggest risks for drivers, with Waka Kotahi data showing that in the past three years, 283 drivers in fatal or injury crashes were distracted by a phone....

Amanda Cropp, STUFF It's every motorist's worst nightmare – rounding a corner to find a fully laden 50 tonne truck and trailer unit hurtling straight at you with the driver asleep at the wheel. Fatigue is a major issue for the transport industry and one it is taking more seriously. Quite apart from human casualties, accidents are costly when vehicles are written off and precious cargo destroyed. As well as teaching drivers how to manage fatigue, transport companies are get

Jared McCulloch, NEWSHUB https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/09/how-artificial-intelligence-is-saving-kiwi-truck-drivers-lives.html As the number of fatal crashes involving truck drivers increases, one company believes artificial intelligence (AI) could help. It may look like a standard mini-tanker, but a small camera in the truck's cab could be a lifesaver. The AI device scans the driver's eyes to detect signs of fatigue and distraction, and if their eye lids c

Robert Barry, NZ Autocar Fatigue and distraction are becoming the major contributors to road deaths in New Zealand but in-cab driver facial monitoring technology developed by a group of PhD students at Australia National University in Canberra is now making a difference for 27 Kiwi heavy commercial fleets. A seminar for transport industry stakeholders in Auckland yesterday has learnt how the Guardian driver monitoring system developed by Seeing Machines for use in the cabs o

Iain MacIntyre, FTD Magazine New Zealand’s trucking industry appears to be embracing an enterprising NZI safety initiative that entails the country’s largest commercial motor vehicle insurer itself paying for the installation and first six weeks’ application of the Guardian in-cab, eyetracking system. Developed by Seeing Machines initially for the Australian mining industry, the system is understood to have subsequently gained wide acceptance in larger road transport operatio