For SAFETY'S SAKE!!!
TOTALITARIANISM and TYRANNY always claim SAFETY FIRST, readers!!!!!
"Firm uses GPS to help truckers prevent rollovers; Device measures speed by satellite" by Hiawatha Bray/Globe Staff December 17, 2007
A New Hampshire firm says it's developed a new onboard computer for large trucks that could have prevented the rollover accident that devastated an Everett neighborhood this month.
Heimer Sverrisson, chief architect of Cadec Global LLC in Manchester, said his company's PowerVue computer will go on sale in the first quarter of 2008 for $2,450, and can be installed in old trucks as well as new ones.
Other rollover protection systems use an array of truck-mounted sensors to measure speed and side-to-side movement. PowerVue, however, uses a stream of data from Global Positioning System satellites to determine whether a truck is traveling too fast to turn safely.
Sverrisson: "The main purpose is to detect the driver's behavior and try to avert it before something bad happens."
Next thing you know, they will be tracking your bowel movements!!!
Gonna have to weigh 'em, you know, and pay a pollution tax!
It's gonna be called, appropriately enough, the SHIT TAX!
Fred Andersky, of Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC, of Elyria, Ohio, whose system uses sensors attached to a truck's brakes and steering system, along with other sensors that measure acceleration and side-to-side motion:
"We're kind of reading what the vehicle is doing and what the driver's doing."
Got a passenger and you didn't even know it, huh, truckers?
The data are relayed to a computer that can automatically limit the speed of the truck.
Chevron Products Co. of San Ramon, Calif., has combined the Bendix sensor system with an earlier version of the Cadec onboard computer in 115 of its fuel tanker trucks in the western United States.
Al Mosser, Chevron's global fleet operation standards manager:
"It senses the speed of the vehicle versus the degree of turn. When it senses that there may be a rollover . . . it immediately puts on the brakes."
WTF you need drivers for then?
The PowerVue computer uses a GPS system to constantly calculate the truck's exact position.
So if you are in the crapper, THEY KNOW!
Sverrisson said the GPS fix is so exact that the computer can instantly detect the truck's speed and side-to-side acceleration, then use this data to predict whether the vehicle is in danger of rolling over.
Unlike the Bendix system, PowerVue won't automatically slow down the truck. Instead, it will sound an alarm to warn the driver he's going too fast. Then it will relay that data over a cellular data link to the trucking company headquarters. The company can reward drivers who never get an excessive speed warning or get rid of drivers who get too many.
Yeah, this ISN'T ABOUT SAFETY, is it?
It's about a GLOBAL CONTROL GRID MONITORING EVERYTHING!
For now, antirollover technology isn't mandatory on US trucks, but it's become standard equipment on new tractor units from several manufacturers, including Mack Trucks Inc., Volvo Group., and Paccar Inc., maker of Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks. And Congress is considering giving tax credits to trucking firms that buy vehicles with rollover protection."
The trucker life ain't what it used to be!
No more Smokey and the Bandit, huh?
