The North Carolina Motor Fleet Management office is experimenting with technology that can monitor whether drivers are speeding or even braking too hard, and that office is working with vendors to make it happen.
The agency, responsible for thousands of state-owned passenger vehicles, is interacting with companies operating four pilot programs in which GPS devices are attached to vehicles and information is collected on driving habits.
One of the vendors - a subsidiary of Verizon - made a presentation Monday to the General Assembly's government watchdog committee. Its pilot of 76 vehicles beginning last year showed thousands of instances where cars went over the speed limit by 10 mph and idled for more than 10 minutes.
The presenter said the information collected can change driver behavior and save money in fuel costs and repairs.
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