Truck Makers Display High-Tech Safety Features

Collision Avoidance, Blind Spot Elimination Lead Way

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cLEAN, Va. — Truck manufacturers and fleets demonstrated new, high-tech safety features in their vehicles last week as part of the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative annual meeting here.

Among companies represented June 24 at the Federal Highway Administration’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center were US Xpress Inc. and Freightliner LLC. Both demonstrated several products that apply information technology to truck safety problems.

Prominent among the systems were right-side video cameras, radar-using collision-avoidance systems demonstrated on both Freightliners and US Xpress Volvos, a rollover adviser and control system installed on a Freightliner, and blind-spot elimination.

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