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Serious question fellas. Do any of you know of anyone being suspended or terminated for multiple headway events?
 
Camera starts recording when you follow closer than 2 seconds for 3 mins at 55mph or faster. Heard a rumor a couple guys from STL had over a hundred “events” this year.
 
This ::shit:: is flawed.

Like 1 second for 2.59 minutes is safer than 2 seconds at 3.01 minutes...

Should be tiered:
No more than 1 minute @ 1 second
No more than 5 minutes @ 2 seconds
etc
 
tread said:
This :::shit::: is flawed.

Like 1 second for 2.59 minutes is safer than 2 seconds at 3.01 minutes...

Should be tiered:
No more than 1 minute @ 1 second
No more than 5 minutes @ 2 seconds
etc
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Seriously? You MUST be joking... :tr10driving03:

Dude, at 1 second (or even 2) you can't afford to look at anything but the tail lights of the vehicle in front. No mirrors, no gauges, nothing. Not to mention the public image factor. If that vehicle is a truck, good luck seeing anything of value.

How much sooner might you arrive, realistically, following at 1 or 2 seconds vs 5, 6 or 8?

Not even sure the newer trucks will let you follow at 1 second. I'm certainly NOT going to test it.

We'll stick with the "joking" explanation. Otherwise, you need the technology below to arrive ASAP, before something goes terribly wrong...

 
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SwampRatt said:
Seriously? You MUST be joking... :tr10driving03:

Dude, at 1 second (or even 2) you can't afford to look at anything but the tail lights of the vehicle in front. No mirrors, no gauges, nothing. Not to mention the public image factor. If that vehicle is a truck, good luck seeing anything of value.

How much sooner might you arrive, realistically, following at 1 or 2 seconds vs 5, 6 or 8?

Not even sure the newer trucks will let you follow at 1 second. I'm certainly NOT going to test it.

We'll stick with the "joking" explanation. Otherwise, you need the technology below to arrive ASAP, before something goes terribly wrong...

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I for one, would think that a company is opening itself to a huge liability issue with the item in the video. If I were the owner, you couldn't run fast enough to give me that system.
 
I’m just training for platooning.

I mean, it is supposed to improve the driver experience. We are dumping millions into it.

I just want to be compliant in all of that!

At least I make sure to keep my cruise set, before hitching my nose to the first willing partner’s donkey.

I figure the videos will just further illustrate the amazing fuel savings, improved driver experience and advantages in safety that ate the talking points of our industry’s current agenda.
 
SwampRatt said:
Seriously? You MUST be joking... :tr10driving03:

Dude, at 1 second (or even 2) you can't afford to look at anything but the tail lights of the vehicle in front. No mirrors, no gauges, nothing. Not to mention the public image factor. If that vehicle is a truck, good luck seeing anything of value.

How much sooner might you arrive, realistically, following at 1 or 2 seconds vs 5, 6 or 8?

Not even sure the newer trucks will let you follow at 1 second. I'm certainly NOT going to test it.

We'll stick with the "joking" explanation. Otherwise, you need the technology below to arrive ASAP, before something goes terribly wrong...

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Agreed.

Either way the grace period for recording should vary based on the severity of the following distance.
1 second following is more dangerous than 2 or 3 seconds so the company should incentivize quickly making more room than the standard grace period.
 
I personally think the “powers that be” should proof the vids before calling a driver in to view....traveling 58 in a 65 zone at 1.9 secs for the entire 12 secs of the vid should not warrant being addressed IMO. It should be quite obvious from the vid that the driver is attempting to back off....
 
There is other criteria that Triggers Headway events .....get cut off and be forced to hit the brakes and it Triggers event...
Being stuck in traffic.....vehicles in front take off ...you go to take off....you hit the pedal truck leaps ......Possibility of a Trigger......
 
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tread said:
Agreed.

Either way the grace period for recording should vary based on the severity of the following distance.
1 second following is more dangerous than 2 or 3 seconds so the company should incentivize quickly making more room than the standard grace period.
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Certainly agree, 1 second is far worse than 2 +.

System is set to "capture" (and report) following at 2 sec or less, for 3 minutes. That's a pretty long time. Also only does so at 55 or above, so you have to do so for around 3 miles to trigger a capture. Backing off does reset the 3 min."clock".

Worth noting, a capture doesn't mean we've done anything wrong, just that something occurred within the preset parameters. Captures get looked at and the vast majority show nothing to report. Only if there is something alarming or egregious, does the driver even hear about it.

The job of reviewing captured video usually must be among the more boring assignments MOST of the time
 
Redracer3136 said:
I personally think the “powers that be” should proof the vids before calling a driver in to view....traveling 58 in a 65 zone at 1.9 secs for the entire 12 secs of the vid should not warrant being addressed IMO. It should be quite obvious from the vid that the driver is attempting to back off....
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We're told that is exactly how it works. Trigger event gets viewed/reviewed. Only if something significant is detected will the driver (via Safety) be "coached". I'm told that if it makes it through all of that, it's pretty cut and dry, it's unsafe.
 
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