drivebuddyAI, a leading ADAS product company in India providing solutions for the logistics industry, has announced the expansion of its partnership with Gujarat-based Rahul Roadlines, a leading logistics company specializing in the transportation of hazardous, high-value chemicals.

With successful 1.5 years of engagement covering 10% of their fleet, Rahul Roadlines has placed an order to cover half of their fleet, with a commitment to eventually extend the coverage to their entire fleet with a five-year engagement program. Rahul Roadlines is one of the prominent players in HazMat (Hazardous material) transportation from chemical manufacturing plants from Dahej/Hazira to across India.

Rahul Deep Sandhu, Owner, Rahul Roadlines has been quite enthusiastic about using cameras & AI in the trucks and has been leveraging drivebuddyAI's ADAS and AMCS, which includes road-facing and driver-facing cameras, along with external cameras for 360-degree surveillance.

"Over the past 1.5 years, our partnership with drivebuddyAI has evolved from a pilot project into the expansion covering half of our fleet. For us, the Hazmat transportation requires more check-points, if anything goes wrong and it could have been a catastrophic impact not only on the business but also on the ecosystem. From the litigation to insurance claims to ensure the customers about safety & security, the video data as a proof helps. We have had cases in the past and thanks to drivebuddyAI's support we could exonerate our fleet and drivers from incidents of thefts and minor crashes," Sandhu added.

"ADAS are high-speed systems which runs on good computing with having assistive capabilities for the drivers, the first challenge is to ensure drivers are on the page adopting them. The second challenge is the environment of operation i.e. road, dust etc makes us to ensure the reliability of the hardware. The ADAS is not only used for driver assistance but also a tool as a data recorder for the smallest incident to the major ones making it available to the customer within a short duration of the impact. The uptime needs to be maintained for the fleet companies to make the most of the product. We have been learning from the field experiences, customers, drivers and numerous challenges coming our way daily, making us an experienced product company serving on the field executing ADAS on trucks, buses & cars since 2019 commercially," Nisarg Pandya, Founder & CEO, drivebuddyAI, said.