AI and Fleet Safety Resources

Nauto’s CEO speaks to WardsAuto about the power of combining vehicle risk assessment with driver monitoring to help improve driver performance.

Stefan Heck speaks with InformationWeek about how AI can alert a driver to an impending collision and the gradual transformation of vehicle AI in the next few decades.

“When drivers hate the intervention, they tend to ignore it, or they tend to tamper with the system, both of which are bad,” said Stefan Heck, founder and CEO of AI-powered safety platform Nauto.

WorkTruck reports that Nauto’s AI-powered safety system was tested in real-world driving by VTTI, showing perfect smartphone distraction detection and rapid in-vehicle alerts.

Design News reports that The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has confirmed the value of having an AI system provide feedback to drivers with Nauto leading the charge.

Fleet Equipment explores the effectiveness of truck dash cams, spotlighting a recent study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) that set out to answer just how much these technologies improve fleet safety.

Fleet Maintenance highlights a new report with data from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute where Nauto delivered 100% accuraacy when detecting distracted driving.

In a bid to boost road safety, truck fleets are installing advanced AI-enabled dashboard cameras to assist and coach their drivers. Stefan Heck advises on how AI can analyze road risks in real time for drivers.

Stefan Heck featured in HD Trucking: “AI will do for paperwork what automation did for assembly lines years ago,” Heck says. “And eventually it will do the same for long-haul automated trucks."

Older drivers are among the safest drivers. But car safety tech is important. Stefan Heck says in AARP, “The safety systems do help — if you know what to do.”

In an article for Risk and Insurance, Nauto CEO Stefan Heck highlights how rising distracted driving rates and soaring repair costs are straining fleets and insurers, and how real-time prediction and prevention technology can help reverse the trend.

In Insurance Thought Leadership, Paul Carroll points to encouraging signs that distracted driving may finally be on the decline, thanks to public awareness, insurer initiatives, and emerging in-vehicle AI technologies such as Nauto.

In Tech Brew, Nauto CEO Stefan Heck supports mandatory AEB rules but urges regulators to take a broader approach because distraction remains the biggest threat on the road.

Nauto CEO, Stefan Heck, shares with VentureBeat how Nauto’s AI-powered, dual-facing camera system helps fleets prevent distracted driving collisions by detecting risks in real time.

Nauto's CEO, Dr. Heck, spoke with Design News about how AV incidents highlights need for more data and AI to better model vehicle behavior.

Distracted driving remains a top safety issue for fleets, but AI-powered solutions like Nauto’s are helping reduce risk. Fleets are cutting collisions, improving driver behavior, and lowering maintenance costs.

Nauto CEO Stefan Heck explains how pairing AI with electric vehicles can significantly reduce collisions, improve driver behavior, and lower repair costs, creating a cleaner, safer future for commercial fleets and society alike.

By combining Nauto’s AI-powered fleet safety tech with Beans.ai’s precision routing data, the collaboration helps optimize operations and improve driver performance across commercial fleets.

Nauto and Beans.ai have partnered to deliver an integrated solution that boosts safety, efficiency, and VEDR compliance for last-mile delivery fleets.

As highlighted in IEEE Spectrum, Nauto’s system detects signs like yawning, blink patterns, and posture shifts to identify driver fatigue and issue real-time alerts before risks escalate.

At CES 2025, Nauto showcased how its AI-powered system helps fleets prevent collisions and distracted driving by delivering real-time, context-aware alerts.

Nauto CEO, Stefan Heck, discusses how Nauto combats distracted driving with smart, non-distracting alerts such as earcons, voice commands, and haptic feedback to keep drivers focused.

What is the impact of mandatory AEB? Unfortunately, regulations are focused on only a small number of issues and not on the biggest root cause of all collisions: Distraction.

Nauto, a company with AI-powered safety cameras, has created a way for commercial fleet operators and others to capture problems with distracted or sleepy drivers and warn them in real time.

In Fleet Management, Nauto CEO Stefan Heck highlights how AI is becoming a plug-and-play tool for trucking, helping fleets improve safety and efficiency with minimal setup.

Why fleets need both regulation and technology to end distracted driving

Transportation planners, local officials and the public are actively looking at solutions to our increased reliance on commercial freight vehicles for last mile delivery. What can be done to keep people safe in motor vehicles?

Latest cutting-edge fleet technology developments can help fleets and drivers improve efficiency. Fleet World picks out a selection.

There are a variety of ways that vehicle crashes impact the companies’ bottom lines that fleet managers need to take into account as they do what they can to minimize the damage.

As the nation exits a busy holiday season filled with high travel volumes, meaning more traffic and more risk, trucking stakeholders, safety regulators, and technology companies alike are working hard to ensure that 2023 is a safer year for everyone on the road.

Trucking stakeholders, safety regulators, and tech companies are striving to make 2023 a safer year.

Stefan Heck discusses how AI can reduce crashes and improve overall driver safety without privacy intrusion.

Software developers such as Nauto, a Palo Alto-based firm, also employ AI to help manufacturers understand driver behavior. Nauto’s AI-based platforms analyze how much a driver is paying attention to the vehicle and the road.

The automotive industry is very much in the forefront of AI innovation. Yoav Banin, chief product and business development officer at Nauto highlighted three applications of AI-based systems for the industry.

Through the implementation of Nauto’s A.I. co-pilot, threats of distracted driving can be mitigated and corrected through real-time coaching and feedback regarding current performance.

Some of the causes of the 10.5% spike in U.S. traffic deaths last year persist and are growing, while others may be fading. Stefan Heck, Founder and CEO of Nauto, discusses the increase in speeding during the pandemic, the rise in distraction rates, and the spike in traffic deaths of pedestrians.

Artificial intelligence and privacy don't always work hand in hand. But when it comes to one sector, commercial driving, AI vision seems to be drastically reducing one of the most astounding examples of employee surveillance today.

What is optimal alerting? What are the top considerations for fleets that are considering a vehicle safety solution?

Instead of compounding safety issues with more regulations, an alternative suggestion could be to seek the help of artificial intelligence instead of bureaucrats. Using AI-assisted video cameras has shown to be highly effective at preventing—or at least mitigating—the severity of crashes.

Using advanced AI, Nauto has created a co-pilot for every driver that delivers real-time feedback and preventative warnings while the truck is on the move. Stefan Heck, founder and CEO of Nauto, discusses how the integration of this new technology will impact the future of driving behavior.

Nauto®, a leading provider of AI-based vehicle safety technology for commercial fleets and the automotive sector, is honored to announce its selection to the 2022 Forbes AI 50 for North America.

Our CEO, Stefan Heck, shares how he got started in the automotive industry and how leading-edge technologies are making cars and trucks safer, smarter, and more sustainable.

Our Chief Product Officer, Yoav Banin, shares how humans, with a little help from AI, can overcome distracted driving.

Datamation names the top AI companies playing a key role in shaping the future of AI, and Nauto is on the list.

Nauto's predictive-AI won an Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award from the Business Intelligence Group, which recognizes organizations, products, and people who apply AI to solve real problems.

Taking a people-centered approach to rolling out artificial intelligence initiatives is the key to success, experts say. Here’s how to ensure your AI efforts are ‘augmenting’ the value employees bring to their work.

Since installing Nauto’s driver and fleet safety program, the private fleet of more than 600 delivery trucks has seen collisions fall by 44% since 2018.

Our CEO, Stefan Heck, shares why the future of trucking, and even autonomous vehicles, will involve humans.

Innovative driver and road safety solution will be available for customers of Navistar's Class 6 through Class 8 International Trucks

Driver shortages and the risks that come with the hiring of younger, inexperienced, and often distracted drivers can be combatted with technologies like Nauto's predictive-AI. We help our customers reduce collisions so they can keep their drivers and communities safe.

Companies collaborate to enhance driver safety and improve urban last mile mobility with predictive-AI technology that gives drivers critical extra time to avoid collisions

Nauto commends the passage of the bipartisan legislation that calls for a rule that will set minimum performance standards requiring all vehicles sold in the U.S. to be equipped with collision-warning technology within five years.

Our chief product officer Yoav Bannin discussed how #AI is helping keep truck drivers safe, reduce collision losses, and lowering insurance premiums.

Tesla is expanding its advanced suite of driver-assistance features and included scoring of its drivers with this beta release. Nauto CEO, Stefan Heck, comments on the shortcomings of Tesla's approach including its failure to include two of the most critical collision risks: distractedness and speeding.

Examples of AI in use in automotive including Nauto, Tesla, and Ford.

Nauto has developed a hardware-software solution capable of raising the safety level of traditional cars. Learn more.

In an interview with Dr. Stefan Heck, CEO and founder of Nauto, he explains why traffic accidents are a misnomer, why 95% of what happens on roadways is perfectly predictable and how Nauto is looking to address the future of transportation and safety with a very human approach.

Select Energy Services, a leading provider of water and chemical solutions with a fleet of roughly 2,000 trucks nationwide, prides itself on its safety culture. Select Energy has seen significant risk reduction with Nauto's safety technology. Their legal expenses are estimated to be down about 50% on the trucks using Nauto, which probably means roughly the same amount will be saved on insurance. Mr. Fontaine also speaks to the real-world impact Nauto has had in helping save a drowsy driver's life.

Nauto, a leading SaaS provider of AI and computer vision technology for commercial fleets and the automotive industry, has announced new AI and feature enhancements to its Driver and Fleet Safety Platform.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can help fleets solve long-running problems and improve safety, if deployed effectively.

Nauto's AI technology is able to track and analyze risk in real time, and when it detects covered risks it can provide preventative warnings that may give drivers critical extra time in which to respond.

Artificial intelligence offers a solution to reduce collisions and distracted driving. Nauto's intelligent connected dashcam packed with AI prevents accidents and improves the driving skills of fleet drivers.

Geotab’s Nauto Driver and Fleet Safety Platform provides a real-time, AI-enabled safety platform that can help predict and prevent high-risk events.

Nauto, a Silicon Valley startup, has introduced camera-based software that can issue predictive collision alerts, monitor driver behavior and provide self-guided coaching for drivers.

Fleets can tap into artificial intelligence (AI) to repair vehicles more efficiently and to train drivers in real time, according to speakers at ACT Virtual during a connectivity panel on the power of AI, including Nauto's CEO & Founder, Stefan Heck

While the AV dream is going to take even longer yet to be realized, four advanced crash-avoiding technologies already available or to become available this year, including Nauto.

Reducing financial strain is just one challenge for commercial truckers due to COVID-19, but distracted driving continues to be a challenge for fleets. Nauto's founder & CEO, Stefan Heck, shares how Nauto supports fleets during this period.

As driver assistance technology continues to expand in the transport sector, there has been a visible increase in the number of distracted driving cases, primarily due to drivers who place too much trust in technology to back them up during critical events on the road.

Nauto is a real-time, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered driver and fleet safety platform. It predicts, actively prevents, and helps reduce high-risk events. What sets Nauto apart from its competition is its “AI on the edge capabilities.”

Nauto, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to analyze video from vehicles says it is increasing the recording of Uber rides to settle disputes between drivers and passengers and to improve safety.

Nauto, a California-based technology startup that improves driver behavior, has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered driver and fleet safety platform for commercial vehicles, which will integrate with the safety programs set in place by Nauto’s fleet customers.

Nauto, a provider of fleet safety products, just announced what it claims is the first and only in-vehicle, real-time AI-powered driver and fleet safety platform.

In the transportation industry, advancements in autonomous vehicles, driver safety systems, digital freight matching and other applications are all powered by machine learning technology. Perhaps more importantly, transportation companies are using the technology to better manage risk by changing future outcomes rather than reacting to present events.

What is Silicon Valley's role in autos? The tech hub's mastery of sensors, geographic data, communications and artificial intelligence is exerting a gravitational pull on the global auto industry.

Fleet Management Weekly identifies Nauto as the most robust, full-spectrum anti-distraction system on the market today that combines multiple sensors, telematics, and a distraction warning that is powered by AI.

A Nauto study released this month found distracted driving could be reduced as much as 47 percent if drivers get real-time alerts that help refocus their attention on the road.

A study by artificial intelligence startup Nauto surfaced this week explaining the perils of distracted driving and shedding light on the frequency of accidents occurring due to road distractions.

Nauto CEO, Stefan Heck, discusses role of AI-in-the-cab in constructing the connected car ecosystem.

This Palo Alto start-up is taking aim at a deadly problem: distracted driving among commercial fleet drivers. Nauto revealed that 70% of collisions with commercial fleets involved distracted drivers.

Using AI and lots of data Stefan Heck’s startup Nauto is already saving lives on the road. While completely autonomous vehicles all the time may still be months away, this venture has found a way to apply the best in technology to make a difference today.

Nauto will offer fleet drivers a new app that should increase transparency and help facilitate coaching, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based fleet safety solutions provider has announced.

Nauto has developed a new AI-powered Coaching Dashboard for fleet managers and a mobile app, Nauto Driver, for fleet drivers to self-coach.

An array of new and updated solutions in 2019 will help fleet managers reduce risky driver behavior like never before.

Algorithms of Nauto Prevent monitor a driver’s head, eyes and torso to determine if eyes are on the road, says Sanket Akerkar, senior vice president of Nauto’s fleet and insurance lines of business. Drivers get progressive in-cabin alerts if they are distracted while a vehicle is moving. A driver is not alerted for looking at a cell phone at a stop light, for instance. The severity of risk is based on the length of time a driver is not looking at the road and the speed of the vehicle.

Academics worry how A.I. will be programmed to navigate ethical dilemmas. Founders of A.I.-driven companies don't.

Nauto’s data shows that a “driver distraction event” occurs, on average, every four miles. Mr. Heck said there was evidence that the inattention of human drivers was a factor in half of the approximately 40,000 traffic fatalities in the United States last year.

Nauto, the automotive tech startup that uses a combination of artificial intelligence, cameras, motion sensors, and GPS to understand and improve driver behavior, has raised $159 million from a diverse group of investors that includes General Motors, venture capital firm Greylock Partners, and the Softbank Group Corp.

The Palo Alto, CA-based start-up makes technology to help develop driverless cars.

Greylock’s Reid Hoffman and SoftBank’s Shu Nyatta will join Nauto’s board as part of the investment.

Nauto closed a $159 million Series B funding round, led by Softbank and Greylock. Previous investors included German automaker BMW AG (BMWG.DE) and Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), as well as German insurance firm Allianz (ALVG.DE) and General Motors (GM.N) Ventures.