Motive has introduced AI-powered lane swerving detection, and AI-powered smoking and forward parking detection — new tools that expand Motive’s AI Driver Safety platform.

The features are intended to give fleets earlier visibility into high-risk driving behaviors that can precede collisions, allowing for faster intervention, Motive says in a news release.

The new lane swerving detection tool is available for AI dash cams and is designed to identify repeated lane swerving — a factor in 79% of fatigue-related collisions — by flagging three or more swerves within five minutes at speeds above 50 mph. The system compiles the activity into a single safety event to help managers identify patterns and intervene more quickly. Alerts are currently sent to managers, with driver alerts planned for a future release.

The smoking detection feature is available on Motive’s dual-facing AI dashcams and is designed to detect when a cigarette is in a driver’s hand or mouth for more than five seconds while the vehicle is moving at five mph or more. The system sends in-cab alerts to drivers and notifications to safety managers. Motive says that smoking can be especially hazardous in hazmat operations and increases the risk of distraction-related incidents and vehicle deaths, adding that the act of lighting, holding, and disposing of a cigarette taking a driver’s hands off the wheel and eyes off the road for an average of 12 seconds. 

A third feature, AI-powered forward parking detection, is intended to reduce low-speed collisions by identifying when a vehicle reverses out of a parking space after parking head-first. The capability, available on all Motive AI dashcams, alerts managers for follow-up coaching, while drivers can review events in the Motive Driver App.