Call me a luddite but I still don't think a heavily sleep deprived person should be driving an 18 wheeler, vibrating jump scare blinkly light hat or no.
Maybe it's different in the States, but in Canada it is one of the few industries with some pretty heavy regulations. There are strict limits on how much a driver is allowed to drive, and their logs are inspected during random checks (along with load weight and other things). Pretty sure no one wants a heavily sleep deprived driver behind the wheel of a truck, including most truck drivers. Most do want to be able to get back home safely to their families. That being said, I'm pretty sure that salaries have stagnated in the industry, so I wouldn't be shocked if we're seeing more and more drivers driving longer hours to make up for that deficit.
Canada's "strict regulations" limit you to the very reasonable only 13 hours of driving before 8 hours off lol. All drivers especially OTR are sleep deprived af.
My dad is a truck driver so he always insisted that they're heavily regulated and I never prodded. All I can say is, ah well, nevertheless.
Thanks for the details, pretty sure i have heard those numbers before and young lib me was like "that seems fine".
It is heavily regulated in the sense of there are harsh penalties for violations but driving is a truly gruelling profession. Shout out pops
here in Brazil a bunch of truck drivers take some thinning drug called amfepramone to stay awake (it acts like a stimulant), i think it's weird they take this instead of something like adderall the drug companies are always finding strange niches to sell their shit.
This is literally a form of torture. Like, they do this in prisons to extract confessions out of people.
There are already similar systems in trucks themselves too with audio alarms. Good technology that is truly useful used for hyper exploitation of workers.
What if this but instead it's infrared light to beat facial recognition software.
Reminds of a video of a trucker not able to drive and pulled over to alert dispatch and they were like “nah you need to drive it in.” And he’s like “I still have x hours to go and I’m falling asleep it’s not safe” snd they were like “Just walk around outside a bit and you’ll be good”
Am I the only one who thinks this is good? I mean overworking of truckers is ofc fucking bad and capitalists gonna innovate to exploit, but IDK having something that can act as a last line of defense before something terrible happens is a sound idea in itself.
If the options are "let drivers fall asleep at the wheel" or "make them wear this dumb hat," sure. I just think we have a little more imagination than that.
