Safety aspects
Most of the road accidents are caused by a human error, hours of service are forced to prevent fatigue truck drivers behind the steering wheel. The truck drivers life can be in danger if he is too tired, he can easily fall asleep and we all know that this action will entail fatal consequences or Injuries.
The future holds many challenges many technical discoveries, but however man cannot be in total replaced with machines he will be controlling over the road to make quick judgment decisions.
According to FMCSA 13% of large truck crashes were caused by fatigue truck drivers, and one in four drivers admitted to falling asleep at the wheel. Also study found that 17.6 percent of truckers studied suffered from mild sleep apnea while 5.5 percent had moderate sleep apnea and 4.7 percent had severe conditions.
There is 15.5 million trucks operating across US, slight negligence can make a chain accident on the highway with many victims. This system may be the right thing to solve this problem.
