Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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60 commercial carrier journal | december 2016 Collision avoidance systems, other technologies playing increasingly critical roles for fleets BY JASON CANNON "A utonomous driving" may be the loudest current buzz phrase in trucking, but the road to robot transportation is paved in layers of sophisticated technologies that all have to work together in order to keep a driver safe. e first layer is adaptive cruise, a technology that allows the truck to maintain safe following distances without the driver having to actively manipulate the accelerator or brake pedal. e next several layers include the components that make up what is largely considered a collision avoidance system, a package that Jon Morrison, president of Wabco Americas, calls a critical factor in facilitating autono- mous driving. "Wabco uses the terminology 'collision mitigation system,' " Mor- rison says. "at means a system that provides active braking on moving, stopping and stationary vehicles to help mitigate or prevent impending rear-end collisions." Fred Andersky, director of government and industry affairs for Bendix Com- Bendix's Wingman Advanced and Wingman Fusion colli- sion mitigation technologies are designed to help drivers potentially avoid rear-end collisions or at least help reduce their severity.