ZegoIntroduces a Novel Rest Feature to Battle Driver Exhaustion
In a significant move towards enhancing road safety, insurtech company Zego has introduced a new feature called Rest to its Sense app. This innovative tool is designed to address driver fatigue, a significant risk on UK roads.
The Rest feature is fully integrated into Zego Sense and impacts the driver's overall risk profile, contributing to both insights and pricing. By analysing driving patterns, Rest identifies insufficient breaks and prolonged driving sessions, which Zego data links to increased crash risk.
Commercial drivers are disproportionately affected by fatigue-related accidents, with up to 20% of road accidents in the UK linked to tiredness, and 40% of sleep-related collisions involving vans or lorries. The Rest feature aims to help drivers stay alert, safer, and more confident on the road.
The Rest feature translates rest-taking habits into a simple, trackable score and flags risky driving days. This enables drivers to schedule and monitor mandatory rest breaks effectively, ensuring compliance with legal requirements on driving and rest hours. Proper rest is critical to preventing fatigue, a major contributor to accidents for commercial drivers.
By promoting adherence to regulated rest periods, the Rest feature encourages drivers to stay alert, thereby decreasing the chance of accidents related to tiredness. This aligns with Zego Sense’s use of technology to simplify insurance through driving data and policy management, creating a safer driving environment for commercial drivers in the UK.
The convenience offered by such digital tools allows fleet operators and drivers to maintain accurate logs easily and plan safer schedules, thus improving overall road safety standards for commercial vehicles in the UK. The Rest feature complements Zego's mission to build a safer and fairer insurance model.
Zego's partnership with ABAX, a leading European telematics company, supports this growth into Europe. The collaboration helps fleet clients save on policies while expanding Zego's reach across the continent. Saar, a representative from Zego, commented: "Zego is constantly developing technology to empower drivers."
One in eight drivers admit to falling asleep at the wheel, while only one in five takes the recommended break every two hours. The Rest feature serves to alert drivers about when to take rest, preventing overwork and reducing the probability of fatigue-induced errors on the road.
Staying awake for 18 hours produces impairment equivalent to a blood alcohol level of 0.05%, while 24 hours without sleep equates to 0.10% - over the UK legal limit. By addressing driver fatigue, Zego's Rest feature significantly impacts driver fatigue risk reduction and contributes to a safer driving environment for commercial drivers in the UK.
- Zego, an insurtech company, has introduced a new feature called Rest in its Sense app to combat driver fatigue, a major risk on UK roads.
- The Rest feature, integrated into Zego Sense, analyzes driving patterns to identify insufficient breaks and prolonged driving sessions, potentially linked to increased crash risk.
- This feature aims to help commercial drivers adhere to regulated rest periods, thus reducing the risk of fatigue-related accidents, which account for up to 20% of road accidents in the UK.
- By flagging risky driving days and providing a trackable score for rest-taking habits, Zego's Rest feature allows drivers to schedule and monitor mandatory rest breaks effectively, contributing to a safer driving environment in the UK.
