My Driver Facing Camera experience (thoughts, please)?

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  1. FearTheCorn

    FearTheCorn Medium Load Member

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    Forward facing camera's are for you and the companies own good. Driver facing camera's are there to throw the driver under the bus. There are plenty of companies out there who don't use them.
     
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  3. Bonita Nut

    Bonita Nut Light Load Member

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    I know that's right!
     
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  4. LtlAnonymous

    LtlAnonymous Road Train Member

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    So if I have a microsleep, this camera will detect it? Do they have some kind of brain wave helmet for me to wear? How does this work?

    Three yawns and the engine cuts off. Right on the highway.
     
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  5. Cat sdp

    Cat sdp . .

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    something about your eyes blinking or moving…..
     
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  6. PaulMinternational

    PaulMinternational Road Train Member

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    Didn't watch the last one because it wants an account but after viewing the first 2 I can say with confidence an inward facing camera wouldn't have prevented those situations.
    Just like the idiot today that I watched with his face and eyes focused straight ahead as he drove into the intersection agains a red light and then scrambled as he finally realized he screwed up as traffic coming the other way all but hit him. His inward camera wouldn't have made squat of a difference as his eyes never left the road.
    You might have a slight argument with the second one but even with him looking straight forward his inability to recognize the tracks, train and how to properly handle them would have resulted in the same outcome.
    Both incidents would still be abundantly clear to be drivers fault even as viewed from just a forward facing camera and even with no camera at all.
     
  7. Cat sdp

    Cat sdp . .

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    Samsara is one of the bs companies. If you fart I believe some one gets a email……
     
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  8. Magoo1968

    Magoo1968 Road Train Member

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    Yet when the pos won’t operate it’s takes a week for them to correct issue lol
     
  9. Brandonpdx

    Brandonpdx Road Train Member

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    Anybody willing to subject themselves to the POS mega carrier trucks full of the electronic nannies and tattle tale devices...they should take a long hard think about that and whether the money is worth it for putting up with all that.
     
  10. Gearjammin' Penguin

    Gearjammin' Penguin "Ride Fast-Truck Safe"

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    Take note...there were inward facing cameras on both these trucks. How'd they help?
     
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