Trucking Technologies For Safety

Hey drivers, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the safety technology in our trucks. I am trying to understand everybody's perspective on the following -

Effectiveness – Have any of these safety features ever helped you avoid an accident or hazardous situation?

Distractions – Do any of these technologies create distractions or unnecessary alerts while driving?

Trust & Reliability – Do you trust these systems to function correctly, or do you find yourself relying more on your own instincts and experience?

Adaptation – Did it take time to adjust to these technologies, or did they integrate smoothly into your driving routine? Feedback & Improvements – If you could change or improve any aspect of these safety features, what would it be?

Please feel free to share any thoughts on these!

All I have to say is:

Ahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa

You're kidding, right?

I have a lot of complaints about them, so here is the short version.

Way too often the truck picks up a phantom objects in your path including shadows, bridges, road signs, vehicles on ramps that are not infront of me. The truck especially Internationals will hit the brakes with no warning.

The lane departure warning will buzz for, concrete sealer, water, old lane markings, warning concrete or for fun as I'm centered in my lane and it just buzzes.

For all the above reasons I do not trust them. I can not think of a time they helped me avoid an accident. But I know of several especially in internationals were I felt like it almost caused one.

I have a lot of complaints about them, so here is the short version.

Way too often the truck picks up a phantom objects in your path including shadows, bridges, road signs, vehicles on ramps that are not infront of me. The truck especially Internationals will hit the brakes with no warning.

The lane departure warning will buzz for, concrete sealer, water, old lane markings, warning concrete or for fun as I'm centered in my lane and it just buzzes.

For all the above reasons I do not trust them. I can not think of a time they helped me avoid an accident. But I know of several especially in internationals were I felt like it almost caused one.

This is everything I would have added. The lane departure warning is pretty bad. And then half the time doesn’t tell you when you actually are leaving the lane. But will buzz at you for concrete sealer. The forward collision warning that never works? I lost count of how many times it randomly throws on the brakes for a shadow or something that’s not even there.

All of these safety systems I have found to be a much bigger distraction for us drivers than they are worth.

For training purposes, sure. But I would gladly rip out every feature.

We have a trailer roll stabolizer which is supposed to "help prevent rollovers". But if you arent going too fast it isnt a concern.

Distraction disttaction distraction.

Those safety features as they call them are a pain. If they worked correctly I may feel different.

My old stuff has none of that and relies on me to drive it safely. If they put as much money in good oke fashion training for drivers as they do that junk we would have better drivers.

This part, right here. In my new truck, I hear something go off, and am confused looking for WTF error I did! Distractions are bad. Trying to figure out what that noise was and or meant, means I'm not focusing on my driving.

Just because it's a fancy bell and whistle and you CAN do it, doesn't mean you SHOULD do it.

Id gladly rip out all the babysitters as well. I had my "AI" camera lose my seatbelt between my boobs 5 times in 20 minutes. I actually got a phone call, asking me wtf was going on. Oh, I don't know. The programming thinks women don't have boobs.

If they put as much money in good oke fashion training for drivers as they do that junk we would have better drivers.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The crash mitigation systems, acc and lane tools are extremely unsafe.

At Knight, Their safety depth chose to leave the units maxed out on sensitivity and braking. I've had numerous instances where the vehicle unexpectedly and for no valid threat, applied full braking and exhaust braking on snow, rain, in turns and in traffic resulting in complete loss of control of the vehicle and numerous slides. In addition, when deployed it subjects the driver to unexpected forces slamming them forward with several gs of force resultingin chronic joint pain, whiplash, ptsd from auditory and visual alarms accompanying trauma. It's very akin to being rear ended multiple times a day, sometimes per hour randomly.

It's good grounds for litigation as it's caused many drivers significant harm, pain and suffering.

It's one more instance of people whom have no idea, can not even begin to conceive of what professional drivers must do to operate our vehicles yet make policy and items for the trucks that ultimately only success is making the drivers life hell. I spent most of my days trying to drive despite the "safety" measures of the truck. In fact, it was so onerous to me that it was a primary factor in my decision to go with my present company that allows us to turn off the insidious pieces of fertilizer.

Also, inevitably, most companies simply resort to attaching pay to the devices and use them to lower wages to the drivers as a whole.

Hopefully the op can begin to understand just how many loathe these things. The best thing you can do is actually concentrate on enforcement of FMCSA policies regarding immigration status and the mandate that CDL holders MUST be able to communicate and understand English.