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Viktor Bielko, fleet business unit director at Sygic, a Slovakia-based provider of GPS navigation software, says the growth in smartphone-based fleet management solutions started around 2011, when the first of Sygic’s clients asked for an Android-based navigation solution.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released guidelines for minimizing visual and manual distractions of drivers, putting new pressure on automobile manufacturers to promote the use of simple, voice-based systems to perform non-driving tasks.
Drivers who do not activate the Contran 245 module will still benefit from a second service, which was added at the insistence of the Brazilian Justice Department: autonomous blocking. This means that a driver can report his car stolen, and the vehicle will be disabled, but not tracked. “This is stupid,” says Antonio Calmon, CEO of Kaitech Consulting. “The car will be left somewhere, but no one knows where.”
In this video from Insurance Telematics Europe 2013, Johan Strydom, consulting, pricing actuary, The Actuarial Consultants, talks to TU's Jan Stojaspal about the importance of understanding how much, where and when people drive before taking on the complexities of driver behavior. "Keep all the data to mine later," he says. "But, for now, just stick to the big ones, which is pretty much around the usage and the extreme behaviors."
In this week’s Brief: Ford, Hagens Berman, Towergate Smart, SiriusXM Radio, AT&T, Nissan, Better Place, Sunrise, Airmax Group, USA Sturdy Corporation, Google, TeleNav, Waze, Renaissance Insurance Group and Mobile TeleSystems.
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