Shield also offers vehicular collision avoidance and is designed to offer value especially in low light scenarios. It offers protection when the bus is stopped for loading and unloading and in gear preparing to depart from a bus stop, during the route monitoring for pedestrians and vehicles, and during right-hand turns, watching for cyclists or pedestrians. The system can detect a student running toward the
bus even after the driver’s attention has shifted away from the loading zone.
Detecting Students Inside School Buses As safety critical as the Danger Zone in student aware- ness is that school bus drivers ensure all students are off the bus when the route is complete. Driver training is once again key, and student detection technology can aid in that awareness. Jeff Cassell, founder and president of the School Bus
Safety Company, said that passing laws regarding child endangerment when leaving a child on the bus to miti- gate resulting civil suits shouldn’t be the point. “It’s just the industry doing the right thing. Legisla-
tion is the last line of attack,” he said. “There’s always the fear of the kids on the back of the school bus. The
school bus yard can be hundreds of yards from the office. A young child gets off the bus and wanders off in the woods or off onto the highway, wanders off into a dangerous situation.” Increasingly extreme hot and cold temperatures com- pound the risk of a child left on board dying or being seriously injured, Cassell added. “It was thought that the original root cause for leaving
children on school vehicles was that the driver was not walking the bus at the end of a trip to look for children left on the vehicle,” commented Dr. Joseph Funyak, senior vice president of transformative products and technologies for IEE Sensing, the maker the Life Detec- tion Assistance System (LiDAS). Instead, David Diamond, a University of South Flor-
ida professor of neuroscience who has specialized in researching why parents and caregivers leave children in hot vehicles, “hypothesizes this oversight occurs because of the ‘competition between the brain’s habit memory and its prospective memory system’ with the habit memory prevailing,” Funyak summarized. As the bus driver searches the bus after each run, day after day, in search of children left behind, they form habitual memory that no children are found on the bus,
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