How big of a distraction are the driver facing cameras and warning systems ?

There is nobody watching you. The camera only activates if you slam on the brakes. It then sends 20 seconds of your driving to your safety dept. if you were texting you will get fired. Otherwise nobody cares what you are doing.

 

Wouldn't distract me one bit,,,because neither would be in any truck I would ever drive again. Here's what they'd see if a camera was facing me,,

 

I used to sing to mine. " Christine Sixteen " by KISS, and pick my nose at it all the time, cause it will activate on bumps and pot holes and such.

And when your anti collision sensors pick up an overpass and slam on the brakes, yea it sucks.

Don't have any of that garbage now, but a camera facing out isn't a bad idea.

 

And you do not talk about the joys of having a camera of your own watching ahead of you? You should have one.

As far as the technology, I prefer it to be quiet. A number of times when I activated the ABS in the rain, ice or whatever, that tractor will say so and there is a light on the left rear of the trailer which helps in eyeballing the thing to see if she will slide.

I drive cars at least a generation older so that there is very little technology in them. Tahoe has some, but it's all me. And if that fails, it's generally known in the insurance world as a crusher not a crushee.

 

Mine randomly records every 15 minutes or so for about 15 seconds. An upload light will turn green everytime it does it. So I'll wait for it to come on then off so I can Pp in my bottle rolling down the road real quick. Also I use headphones when watching P or n. They say the audio recorder cuts off when u set the brakes but I ain't buyin it.

 

Same here, older cars, older trucks, looks like somebody living in the past (me) With all the modern doo-dads and gee-gaws today on new vehicles, and people say I'm too paranoid, but you couldn't convince me otherwise, that these things are recording your driving somehow, to be used later in a court of law. I guess that's ok for some, but my next car is going to be a 1977 Ford Pinto (or something) They'll have to find another way to monitor my driving. ( cell phone maybe that doesn't shut off when you shut it off)

 

If my wife badgered me like you say yours does, she wouldn't be in my truck any longer.

As for inward facing cameras being a distraction, if your constantly setting it off, then you might want to look at your skills as the driver. I had one at p&s, I'd set mine off about once a week, usually when I'd hit a crater at a truck stop or a shipper/reciever.

 

I'm with you. My car is a '95 grand marquis. Only reason I bought a car that new was to keep the wife happy. If I were a single guy I would be driving a '76 or older town car, ltd, caprice, etc. I love those big land barges of the 70's.

My company truck is new but has minimal gadgetry. Has e log but that's about it. I have an old gps that I keep stowed away for emergencies. I don't get the people that drive around with the dash and windshield covered in gadgets. Some guys can't even drive down the road to the nearest truck stop without programming three or four different gadgets.

 

Cattle prods are for cattle.