Using Geotab for driver safety
The basis of keeping track of driver safety are the safety exception rules. System components to configure include:
- Setup exceptions for dangerous driving
- speeding against posted speed limits
- harsh brake
- dangerous lane changes/ aggressive driving
- after hours use
- driving with no seatbelt
- Limiting backing up (and ensuring backing first)
- Seatbelts are used much less than expected by monitoring compliance can go from 80% to 99.8% (large fleet case study)
- Notify the driver by buzzing in the vehicle
- Driver safety scorecard
- Who to email / alert in case of accident -setup a procedure when accident happens.
- Auto retrieve
- Reconstruction from data
- Detect distracted driving – big issue