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Blink of an eye

Operator fatigue and distraction represent the single biggest accident risk to mobile fleet. New fatigue-monitoring technologies now offer mine owners an unprecedented opportunity to address what was once an invisible and hard-to-tackle problem. Jayne Flannery reports

Jayne Flannery
SmartCap's Life app relies on EEG, or reading electrical brain activity to gauge fatigue

SmartCap's Life app relies on EEG, or reading electrical brain activity to gauge fatigue

Fatigue at the wheel is something that most honest drivers would confess to having experienced. Under the pressure of a long and tedious shift, the sensation can take on catastrophic implications for the...

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