The Weather Intelligence feature enables fleets to track weather and road risks in real time. (Samsara)
Key Takeaways:
- Samsara outlined its recently launched AI tools that provide alerts on adverse weather and automate driver coaching.
- The Weather Intelligence feature enables fleets to track weather and road risks in real time.
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SAN DIEGO — Connected fleet technology supplier Samsara highlighted the latest expansion of its artificial intelligence-powered safety platform at American Trucking Associations’ 2025 Management Conference & Exhibition.
During an Oct. 26 press conference, Samsara outlined its recently launched AI tools that provide alerts on adverse weather and automate driver coaching to help fleets reduce risk and prevent crashes.
“The reason this matters — and is also so important for our customers — is crashes are going up and the cost of crashes is going up,” said Johan Land, Samsara’s senior vice president of engineering and head of safety and AI.
One of Samsara’s new features is designed to help fleets better navigate weather conditions, which play a role in 1 in out of 5 crashes, he said.
“It’s up there with speeding, mobile phone [usage], drowsiness and following distance,” Land said. “It’s one of the major contributors to accidents.”
The company’s new Weather Intelligence feature enables fleets to track weather and road risks in real time by combining radar data with information sourced directly from Samsara’s own network of AI dashcams.
The Samsara platform now displays National Weather Service alerts and live weather overlays, including radar, wind speed and thunderstorm risk directly into the map.
Fleet managers can access live dashcam footage and images from their vehicles in areas affected by weather, as well as from other nearby vehicles equipped with Samsara dashcams via its StreetSense capability.
They can then send proactive warnings to drivers in the path of severe weather events to ensure they are aware of the risk.
Samsara also is using AI and automation to help fleet operators coach, train and recognize their drivers at scale without overburdening their safety teams.
The Automated Risk Assessment feature uses AI to automatically analyze and prioritize safety-related events based on factors such as frequency, severity, trip conditions and driver history.
The system sends lower priority events to drivers for self review, while more serious events are sent directly to fleet managers, who can then focus their time on coaching their riskiest drivers.
Samsara customer Jordan Carriers, for instance, has a single safety manager overseeing and coaching 1,000 drivers with the help of AI and automation, Land said.
“That’s the future of this type of AI training,” he said. “Let’s analyze everything, let AI automatically coach and then focus where it matters.”
The platform’s Performance Overview dashboard provides fleet managers information not only on safety risks, but also positive driver behavior so they can recognize and reward their top performers.
Samsara previewed its expanded AI safety capabilities at its Beyond 2025 user conference, also held in San Diego back in June.
