Samsung's Safety Trucks Might Just Save a Ton of Lives

In Argentina, one person is killed every hour in traffic accidents. The main cause is people overtaking without assuring themselves if it’s safe to do so. Samsung’s Safety Trucks might be a campaign stunt to bolster their popularity, but I seriously don’t care. They’re doing a great job, and this might actually save lives on the long run!

We all know how annoying it is to be stuck behind a long-hauler – some trucks drive slow as hell, and they are kinda’ hard to overtake. But this doesn’t mean that you should try to do so without checking if it’s safe first. Samsung builds a huge screen on the back of their trucks, and the camera in the front streams a live feed in order for the driver behind to see what’s happening on the road – thus the dubbing Safety Trucks.

It’s far more convenient to just patiently wait until oncoming traffic isn’t oncoming anymore, so you can pass without accelerating like crazy because there’s a Prius just in front of you.

Samsung doesn’t half-ass things, and their wireless camera can capture night-time footage without distorting too much of the video, and the video wall made out of four exterior monitors doesn’t gauge your eyes out by being way too bright.

Samsung’s Safety Trucks might also prevent accidents caused by braking all of a sudden due to animals jumping in front of a vehicle – it happens way more often than you think.

Now, this is just but prototype, it’s not operational at the moment, but Samsung just wants to give a shout out to the world – ” Here, I made this.”. Hopefully, it’s going to be picked up on a world-wide scale, thus combating, and lowering the rate of accidents caused by failing to overtake properly.

Samsung just needs to perform a lot more tests to ensure that their tech works fine and dandy, and they need permits for their Safety Trucks. Also, there’s a thing called national protocols that their trucks must comply with.

The South-Korean giant might as well implement this on all the trucks they have – they’ll definitely get golden stars in my book.

Here’s the official video by Samsung. Take a look, it’s heart-wrenching, and inspiring.

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I am a geek, a gamer and a writer. I have always been fascinated with the online community. At the moment I work as a full-time writer and study interior design. When I'm not scouring the net in search of interesting new gadgets and software I spend my time in MOBAs or drawing.