Tracy Morgan’s crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in June 2014 has led to a paradigmatic milestone in vehicle safety. A Walmart trailer truck driver who rear-ended the comedian’s limo had been driving for 29 of the past 33 hours.
Had an “electronic logging device” (ELD) been installed in the truck, the accident would not have happened. It would have alerted a fleet operator, well before the driver entered New Jersey, that he was violating federal driving hours standards.
As it happened, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposed an ELD mand...
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