KeepTruckin's Safety Hub - accident prevention and exoneration

31 August 2020 | David Young

To date, exoneration has been the focus for most fleet safety solutions - while dashcams can help protect fleets from wrongful blame, they don't prevent accidents from happening – KeepTruckin suite of apps aim to change that

KeepTruckin's Safety Hub - accident prevention and exoneration

Safety Hub is designed as a safety command centre for businesses. Driving data, video from the AI-powered Smart Dashcam, and risk profiling from their risk score app, Drive, create a 360° view into driver behaviour. Drive measures driver risk using driving data and AI-insights from the Smart Dashcam. The Safety Hub gathers the data all in one place and automatically highlights high-risk drivers in a fleet.

With a holistic view into driver safety, customers can automate coaching to the KeepTruckin Driver App, and can also track progress over time by benchmarking performance against the largest network of drivers in the nation. Businesses can acknowledge and reward top drivers for retention or remove repeat offenders before it's too late.

Drive produces a simple risk score, solely based on the count of telematic events like hard cornering, acceleration, and braking, it also looks at the context of an event, and analyses additional variables - like location, weather, vehicle make and model - that can affect driver performance. The resulting score gives an accurate measure of a driver's risk in comparison to their peers. Drive stands for everything the algorithm is taking into account: Driver, Road, Imaging, Vehicle, and Environment.

Drive aggregates the tens of millions of data points every day from a network of over 350k vehicles to give insight into driving behaviour for every road segment across different vehicle types. When the Smart Dashcam detects unsafe behaviour like hard braking, the App analyses the incident to understand the context behind it. For example, was a driver cut up? Were they following too close? Or were they on a steep road? Drive scores each scenario based on the potential risk. By taking these other factors into account. Based on its modelling, Drive has found that the lowest scoring 20% of drivers are nearly two and a half times more likely to get into an accident.

The system also allows in-app driver coaching. They can proactively self-coach by viewing their own videos in the KeepTruckin Driver App.

John Haverstick's company Miller Expedited uses the sysyem, "Our drivers love to compete with each other. If they see that this guy is at the top of the list, they all want to be at the top of the list with him. That's been a great asset for us - I had one guy come in, who has literally changed his driving habits because he knew he was mid-level with everyone else, and he wanted to be at the top. It's infectious from one driver to the next."

Source: KeepTruckin