The falling costs of advanced safety technology for trucks is helping fleets see the bottom-line benefit, according to a new market analysis from Navigant Research.
Automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning and lane-keeping assist are becoming so popular that Navigant expects advanced driving assistance systems to be about 35 percent of commercial vehicle sales this year.
The North American rollout is slower than in Europe, where regulators required some advanced safety technologies as early as 2015. Story by Alan Adler / www.trucks.com