Eliminor Teams With Mobileye For Driver Monitoring, Possible Insurance Benefits

Eluminor of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, announced it is incorporating Mobileye Vision Technologies' advanced driver assistance systems to complement its Vehicle and Driving Monitoring System

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Mobileye and Eluminor have cooperated since May 2003 to adapt technology for trucking industry use.
The system is designed to reduce liability for insurance companies, helping insurance companies to stay in the high risk, heavy-duty truck market.
According to the Eluminor press release, the Eluminor Vehicle and Driving Monitoring System records a trucker's driving in real time video onto an online risk indexing system that provides feedback for improving driver performance.
In the event of an accident, the technology can identify the aberrant patterns responsible for the crash, including the critical 20 minutes preceding an accident. The information is stored in a crash survivable module built to Federal Aviation Administration specifications.
The release said that Mobileye's SeeQT vision component helps prevent accidents from by warning drivers if they're following too closely, making unsafe lane departures and more. The vision system employs a single camera and advanced pattern recognition software.
"Driver inattention is the primary cause of 90% of crashes," said Professor Amnon Shashua, Mobileye's chairman and chief scientist. "Research has shown that advanced warning systems responding even one-half second before a collision can prevent or reduce the severity of crashes."
Production on this system will begin in the first quarter of 2005.
For more information, visit www.eluminor.com.