Future Truck Program Position Paper 2004-3: Future Driver Vision Equipment User Expectations for Vision When Driving Heavy Trucks

Many accidents and near misses are blamed on “driver error” when in reality the root cause often is a lack of adequate vision. This TMC Future Truck Position Paper defines the vision needs of drivers and encourages the commercial vehicle industry to develop standards that will ensure consistent, reliable, and functional solutions to the vision problems experienced with current trucks (even new models). The industry must develop performance-based standards to ensure that trucks of the future are safer to drive and provide the driver with the vision needed to make correct driving decisions.

Issued: March 2005