A dashboard-mounted display, with green, red and yellow alert lights, measures unsafe moves such as speeding and sharp braking, and sends the data to a database that parents can access. The phone company T-Mobile has tested the device in 250 of its vehicles. It says that it has saved £417,000 in crash damage and 3 per cent in fuel costs in 12 months. To forestall employee fears, a function to identify individual drivers is switched off. That, however, might change.
Hitting the roads Imagine the Big Brother backlash if a mandatory system were proposed.
10. Self-steering
Collision-avoidance systems that intervene when a crash seems inevitable are about to be fitted to vehicles driven in Britain. A system created by Volvo, for example, is active at speeds up to 20mph.
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