Camera's are coming to a truck near you or Yours.

The video captured by these systems is owned by the company. No lawyer is going to allow any of that video to be released to the public if they can help it. In the cases where you have seen video, it was because that video became evidence in a trial and evidence is usually made available to the public at the conclusion of the trial. In cases where the driver is proven innocent by the video, there generally will be no trial because the prosecutor looks at the video, sees the driver is innocent that is where the process ends. No trial equals no trial evidence equals no video released to the public.

IOW video proving driver innocence exists but in general the only way you'll see posted in public is if someone wants to risk getting sued. Don't think that because it isn't on youtube means it doesn't exist.

Yep. Its called acceptable risk. Taking the risk of losing ten or twenty percent of the good drivers you want to keep is seen as an acceptable risk if it means you also get rid of eighty or ninety percent of the bad drivers you want gone. This is how businesses operate. You can stomp your foot and complain about it all you want but I doubt you or I will ever change it.

Used to be, but they moved me into the office so most of my driving days are behind me at this point.

 

Some good points here Cameras not a bad thing.. hear me out. I currently drive a bus in a rural community. I was driving down a back road with no passengers at the time and no other people around but a motorcycle about 1/4 mile ahead of me that I and the camera on the bus would lose site of at every curve. I come around one curve to find him and the bike down on the side of the road. I stopped to assist and asked if he was OK and he rolled over with his right foot flopping over with both bones broke clean in 2. I pulled the bus of to a safe location and called 911. The man was drunk and missed the turn and ended up loosing the foot. My point here is 3 days after the incident he made the statement that I had run him off the road. My stomach sunk but then I remembered we have 4 cameras in each bus. Pulled type no courts and he went to jail. If not for the camera's it would have been a night mare. If I have a truck with NO camera. . I just might put my own in.. they saved my donkey on that day.

Not a big deal. It overwrites all the video except when alarm is triggered. They are not going to send 180 hours of video data through the air of your bad singing or picking your nose that is just way to much data. They would have to hire one person per truck just to watch it. Not a big deal just think of the data we use on our smart phones. Can you imagine if you looked at video 14 hours a day. Just don't pick you nose and slam on the brakes at the same time.

 

No one is disputing that value of a forward facing camera.

 

Love these stories. Catching people lying through their teeth is very satisfying. I won't drive without a camera rolling - just to many shady characters out there.

That said, I have not heard one of these stories where the driver facing camera would have done anything for the driver. Even the manufacturer of these systems markets them as a way to catch employees doing something wrong. I posted that link at one point on another thread like this - to lazy to go back and find it.

 

Please... again to much data. 99.9% of the video recorded never leaves the truck. I review video for my current employer. If you that paranoid there is 2 schools of thought.
1. Don't do anything wrong and nothing to hide
2. Put a towel over the cam when you invite the lot lizard in your truck. The wife will never find out

 

For some reason, those that are anxious to get driver facing cams just don't understand the view of those who don't want them. I can understand some people just don't care, but those same people can't seem to grasp why some of us do care.

I am not the type to do anything "wrong". I am just an intensely private person, and the idea that someone can be staring at me at their discretion is unacceptable to me. It's the mere idea they can is not something I am willing to tolerate.

Facebook, twitter, and other SM have taken over, and people think nothing of having everything out there. I love technology, but I am not on Facebook, Twitter, Classmates.com, or any other site. On personal assets, property, and the corporations I own, I have layers between me and what is available online to the public. You can't find me, period. I know I'm weird, but I will fight the - "hang it all out there" - attitude as long as I can.

And for the record, I'm single and can invite a lizard if I please, but can't imagine why I would. Lot lizards, like strip clubs, are for unhappy married guys. Single guys don't need to sneak around with a "lady" who cleans up in mud puddles, lol.

 

Understood. Just understand with all the cams out there the only data that goes out is an event that triggers a data save. Of those events only the ones related to an incident get viewed. The rest are wiped every so often. With my company it is 90 days. Of just the triggered events and 150 or so units in 90 days this equals to almost a terabyte of data. That's 1024 gigabyte. That would take one person a week to look at 24/7

As for lizards.. that was harsh.. sorry. I'm sure there nasty

 

The driver facing cam, haha I wonder if it will get the same response that the "surveillance camera man" on YouTube gets from people he walks up to and just records.

 

Gee, drivers against a driver "gotcha" device? -- We should be hung out to dry!!

 

Their cameras can suck it !!!!!!!

My truck was turned in two weeks ago. Lol

Good luck guys !!!