Classification levels help Safety Managers to save time by highlighting incidents that are important to review and prioritise action. Addressing high-risk driving behaviours helps you to focus your efforts and improve fleet safety. The cloud AI classifies videos as Critical, Major, Moderate, or Minor to indicate how urgently you should watch them.
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When you receive a video notification, do the following:
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Watch the video
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Determine the action required, and urgency
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Update the event’s coaching status
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Customise a fleet's AI driving assistance settings (AI Dashcams only).
When talking to a driver, bear in mind that driving behaviours can be triggered by both unsafe driving and safe driving, such as evasive maneuvers.
When an event is triggered by an unsafe driving behaviour, it is uploaded to Reveal and reviewed by the cloud AI. The cloud AI analyses the event, detects additional driving behaviours. Then a classification is applied.
The classification levels are generated based on a number of factors, including:
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The behaviour risk associated with the driving behaviour. Where there are multiple events, the cloud AI classifies the most severe behaviour that occurred
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How severely the driver braked, accelerated, cornered, or encountered a sudden force to the vehicle
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How close other vehicles, people, animals, or objects were
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The g-force exerted on the front or rear of the vehicle
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The speed of the vehicle.
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Whether the driver was distracted inside the cab.
All driving behaviours are part of a classified event which are used in the calculation of the driver safety score. This includes Minor events.
Learn how classifications affect the Video driver safety score.
A Collision was detected and the driver lost control of the vehicle. The impact can range from severe to light. For example, the vehicle:
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Collided with a person, object, or another vehicle
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Left the road
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Spun out of control
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Mounted a curb
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Had a tire explode.
The vehicle may have been involved in a dangerous situation. One or both of the following happened:
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One or more unsafe driving behaviours were detected and at least one behaviour was severe.
For example, the driver was not wearing their seat belt while travelling at high speed, or tailgating the vehicle in front closely at high speed.
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A Near miss was detected. This happens when a collision was avoided that could have resulted in:
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Damage to a vehicle and/or object
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Injury to a person and/or animal.
For example, the driver swerves to avoid a vehicle, person, animal and/or object, which is detected very close by.
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The driving manner was inappropriate to the situation. One or more unsafe driving behaviours were detected and at least one behaviour was harsh.
For example, the driver was not wearing their seat belt while travelling at low speed, or tailgating the vehicle in front.
Example 1
The vehicle begins to cross a solid painted line representing the lane boundary. The vehicle speed is slow, and the road is empty of other vehicles, people and objects. Therefore the classification is level is Minor.
Example 2
The driver brakes harshly while smoking, and a collision occurs. The vehicle speed is high, and the road is busy with other vehicles. Therefore the classification is level is Critical.
Triggers can be detected by both the vehicle tracker and the camera AI (AI Dashcams only). Other behaviours are detected by the cloud AI.
A Safety Manager can customise their video notifications, video events detected by the camera AI and uploaded to Reveal, as well as the in-cab alerts a driver hears in real-time.
Set up and customise the desktop or email notifications you receive when a Critical, Major or Moderate video event occurs.
Video events of each unsafe driving behaviour must be enabled in the AI driving assistance settings for the camera AI to detect the behaviour and generate a video, which is then uploaded to Reveal and analysed. Enabling video events allows a Safety Manager to:
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Receive a notification, if enabled
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Watch a video event in Reveal
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Allow the video data to generate a more accurate weekly Video driver safety score and fleet safety score
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View the event in a coaching session to facilitate a conversation about unsafe driving behaviour.
Enabling in-cab alerts allows a driver to hear an alert in real time, prompting them to rectify the unsafe driving behaviour.
When in-cab alerts are enabled, fewer events are triggered compared with when alerts are disabled.
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In-cab alert |
Occurrence of events |
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Phone call detection |
-50% |
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Tiredness |
-50% |
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Distraction |
-33% |
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Smoking |
-30% |
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Tailgating |
-25% |
Based on Verizon Connect customer data.
Learn how to update video triggers and in-cab alerts.