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Trucks in China Are Watching If Drivers Doze, Speed or Slack Off

  • G7 has more than 1.8 million vehicles connected to its network
  • Tencent-backed firm aims to digitize whole logistics chain
G7’s artificial intelligence technology on a truck at its Beijing headquarters. The company takes its name from the G7 Beijing–Urumqi Expressway, the world’s longest desert highway.Photographer: Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg
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Trucks in China connected to G7’s fleet-management network do more than just haul goods across the vast nation.

Using Internet of Things technology, they can employ anti-fatigue cameras to call out bad driving, built-in advanced driver-assistance systems to send warnings about insufficient space between vehicles on highways, and real-time cargo weighing to prevent stealing.