STAY AWAKE WITH ROADGUARD
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AN ELECTRONIC device designed to help keep drivers awake on monotonous stretches of motorway has been introduced by a Danish Company, Transtiet Distributors Corporation.
The warning system, called Roaciguard, comes into operation automatically whenever the vehicle is in top gear. At random intervals of four to 14 seconds :1 red lamp lights up. The driver has three seconds to cancel the lamp. by operating a switch, either at the steering wheel or on the door. If he fails to do this an alarm sounds. And if the switch is kept depressed the alarm goes oft. also after three seconds.
The control unit tits behind the instrument panel .nid is activated by a gearbox sensor. -1 'he manufacturer SayS that the system can be fitted within two hours in all types of truck or bus built from 1981 onwards.
The system has been approved by the Danish Ministry of Justice, which has authority over transport, and reductions in insurance premiums Mr vehicles fitted with it are said to he under consideration by Danish insurance companies.
Transnet Distributors Corporation ApS Kirkebaekvej 163 DK-8800 Viborg Denmark