Has Technology Made Highways Any Safer?

[...]the number of unsafe driving violations for these same carriers increased considerably, which could explain why their accident counts did not decrease. ELDs are harder for a driver to manipulate compared to traditional paper logs. Because the FMCSA also regulates a driver’s legal working hours via the HOS regulations, ELDs reduce a driver’s ability to appear to be operating in compliance with HOS regulations when in fact they are not. Because carriers have to register with the DOT, new carriers will show up in the census data.