Con-way installs safety technology tested at UMTRI

Posted 07/14/2010


An article in AnnArbor.com reports that Con-way Freight, an Ann Arbor-based subsidiary of Con-way, Inc., has installed $5.4 million in safety technology in a new fleet of 2010-model tractors.

Among the upgrades are cameras that can detect a tractor's position in a lane and send a warning to the driver if it veers too close to the line, as well as a front-facing radar that responds to traffic.

Con-way spent ten months testing the new technology in partnership with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and UMTRI.

Read the full article in AnnArbor.com