This is a great idea especially for NZ conditions.

MikeB4:

 

This is a great idea especially for NZ conditions.

 

It really is.

Geektastic:

 

MikeB4:

 

This is a great idea especially for NZ conditions.

 

 

 

 

It really is.

 

Oh hell yes.  Want so much.

Would truckies really pay for this? Looks pretty useful, so long as it's visible say in direct sunlight, and doesn't blind cars behind them in the dark.

timmmay:

 

Would truckies really pay for this? Looks pretty useful, so long as it's visible say in direct sunlight, and doesn't blind cars behind them in the dark.

 

Personally I doubt it......but their companies?  Good PR, doesn't sound overly expensive.

timmmay:

 

Would truckies really pay for this? Looks pretty useful, so long as it's visible say in direct sunlight, and doesn't blind cars behind them in the dark.

 

They could add an ambient light sensor to the screen to reduce intensity at night 

davidcole:

 

timmmay:

 

Would truckies really pay for this? Looks pretty useful, so long as it's visible say in direct sunlight, and doesn't blind cars behind them in the dark.

 

 

Personally I doubt it......but their companies?  Good PR, doesn't sound overly expensive.

 

I could imagine some of the bigger operators looking at it like Peter Baker or Main Freight 

timmmay:

 

Would truckies really pay for this? Looks pretty useful, so long as it's visible say in direct sunlight, and doesn't blind cars behind them in the dark.

 

Frankly I wouldn't be giving them the choice, any more than they get a choice about hours or whatever. Just make it a law that all vehicles must be fitted with the system where feasible (i.e. putting it on the back of a log truck would be tricky!)

Could be tricky to implement on logging trucks, stock trucks, milk tankers, container trucks etc.

I wonder what percentage of trucks on the road would be suitable for such technology?

This is all well and good until parts of the system start exploding unexpectedly, killing everyone.

Geektastic:

 

I sincerely hope that we see this in NZ.

 

One of the best uses of technology to save lives on the road I can recall.

 

I'm thinking *habitual* passing isn't a biological need. It's an ego / emotional want. 

Like...the guys who pass you when you're already 10kph over the speed limit. They should have a speed governor on their cars so they can't be so stupid.....and the rest of us safer. 

Now THAT I'd like to see on the roads in NZ. 

One evening in a less salubroius suburb will see those screens gone quick smart !!!

Personally, I'd rather see wheel spray-mitigtaion devices made compulsory for trucks.

Passing an 18-wheeler and trailer combo on a wet day, even on the motorway, with a damn river of water being sprayed up over the traffic, and no amount of furiously flapping wipers will get rid of the deluge.

On a non-motorway highway, it's damn nigh impossible to pass, as you cannot see through the spray.

I confess though that many times I will sit behind ( not logging or stock trucks) trucks and let them drag me along, they seem to do close to 100kms anyway and pass them when its safe if they slow on the hills. 

MikeB4:

 

I confess though that many times I will sit behind ( not logging or stock trucks) trucks and let them drag me along, they seem to do close to 100kms anyway and pass them when its safe if they slow on the hills. 

 

Good way to save fuel.