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#301 Hemant Banavar & Ryan Paulson: The AI Safety System Driving Toward Zero Harm

Nov 16, 2025
Hemant Banavar, Chief Product Officer at Motive, and Ryan Paulson, CIO at Fusion Site Services, dive into how AI and telematics are revolutionizing fleet safety. Banavar discusses the importance of high-precision AI for accident prevention and reducing false alerts. Paulson shares Fusion's remarkable achievement of a 98% reduction in unsafe events after adopting Motive's systems. They also explore strategies for gaining driver adoption, the necessity for robust benchmarking, and the potential for AI to improve safety and ROI across industries.
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INSIGHT

Precision Over “Good Enough” AI

  • Good-enough AI fails in safety-critical environments where precision prevents accidents.
  • Hemant says highly precise, real-time alerts change behavior and avert incidents.
ADVICE

Use Multimodal, Configurable Alerts

  • Alert drivers instantly with multimodal cues: beep, audio voice, and LEDs.
  • Send configurable notifications to fleet managers so they can act on repeated behaviors.
INSIGHT

Human Feedback Bootstraps Model Trust

  • Human-in-the-loop validation bootstraps model accuracy and reduces false positives.
  • Hemant describes a recursive feedback loop that quickly matures edge models.
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