NTI partners with Seeing Machines

National Truck Insurance (NTI) has teamed with Canberra-based but global company Seeing Machines, in a tie-up the insurer says underlines its commitment to realising a 'zero heavy vehicle involved fatality rate' by 2032, as outlined in NTI's recently released 2019 Major Accident Investigation Report.

Seeing Machines is acknowledged as being at the global forefront of Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS), and develops technologies that can recognise driver distraction and fatigue and potentially head off any incident or accident.

The firm's website states its Guardian commercial transport system has detected over 4,000,000 driver distraction events so far and has issued over 85,000 fatigue interventions in the past year.

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According to Mr Chris Hogarty, NTI's Chief Customer Officer, the partnership is built on a solid foundation of shared values.

"Together we are 'walking the talk' and moving beyond assessing that fleets and transport businesses have safety policies and procedures in place," he said.

"We're venturing into new territory. Our exclusive partnership enables NTI to promote the uptake of Seeing Machines' Guardian technology, whilst also take advantage of research opportunities and exchange critical data."

The partnership will also explore how Heavy Motor Fleet insurance responds to the incorporation of Seeing Machine's market-leading and life-saving Guardian technology to reduce heavy vehicle road incidents and improve safety for all road users.

"Seeing Machine's technology delivers real-time identification and understanding of driver behaviour through Artificial Intelligence (AI) analysis of heads, faces and eyes," said Mr Hogarty.

"It has the potential to shift what we accept as the safety benchmark in transport and logistics."

Seeing Machine's General Manage – Fleet, Paul McGlone, said the partnership with NTI was a sign of things to come for Australian road safety.

"Seeing Machines works closely with insurers in several countries today," he said.

"Partnering with NTI in Australia will open up significant opportunities to accelerate growth in our Fleet business locally and create new information-based collaboration and services. We are delighted to be working with NTI who, like Seeing Machines, are focused on customer service as well as road safety."