Driving behind a semi-trailer truck pose biggest threat on one-lane highways, as it always is hard to avoid the risk of colliding with upcoming traffic while trying to overtake
Most of the drivers who regularly travel on the highways, have always expressed their biggest fear as driving behind a semi-trailer truck on a single-lane road. It is virtually impossible to look past them in order to overtake, and when you do that, there are fair chances of colliding with upcoming vehicles. Most of the people die in such accidents or sustain severe injuries, sometimes, disability for the life time.
There has always been a sheer need of some sort of safety system which would minimise – if not completely eliminated – the hazards of such mishaps.
Samsung to revolutionise road safety
Samsung has revolutionised the mobile market and now it has set its foot in the auto safety industry. They have a number of semi-trailers in their fleet to transport goods from one place to another, and like all others, their trucks also ran into accidents on the roads. So, they have developed a new technology, hoping its implementation will save the lives of many drivers who get stuck behind semi-trailer trucks and get annoyed.
What Samsung is up to?
The company has recently rolled out a number of ‘Safety Trucks’ in Argentina to reduce the number of accidents on one-lane roads. This new system consists of cameras, huge display screens and wireless video, when all working together, projects the video from the cameras in front, to the back on the display screens. This way, drivers at the back of a semi-truck will not have to pull out into harm’s way to look at what’s coming down on the road in front of them.
How does it actually work?
The working of this system is pretty simple, ‘Safety Trucks’ have wireless cameras installed on them in the front, capturing every bit of information from the road ahead. This video is then broadcasted to video screen – made of four video monitors – positioned on the back of the semi-trailer truck. The drivers behind the semi-truck will be able to see whatever is going on in front of them without getting in the line of danger. To make it even more effective, a night mode has been tested and found absolutely superb in the dark.
What say Samsung?
Samsung has confirmed the technology is operational and practical, and it is fully capable to save precious lives. To obtain the necessary permits and approvals, there will be a series of tests about to be conducted to see if this system comply with the existing national protocols.