Boundaries and protocols for inward facing cameras

Well you'd hope so. As you suggest if its done in the right spirit of it all, so be it. But when its start to be used for gain by probably already well off entities, its wrong. People are not perfect, the powers that be should stop searching for ways to make money from what will never be perfect. I'm sure a school or trucking company could improve in many other ways besides watching the staff to make a mistake.

 

The driver facing inward cameras are there for one reason and one reason only. To build evidence against a driver so when the company is done with them, they can easily justify termination.

Some cameras record randomly, and all of them record during events, which happen regularly. Some record 24/7, most record audio, they all record when the tractor parking brake is off.

Anyone who tells you an inward facing camera has exonerated them is almost certainly lying, or incompetent. There's 999 scenarios that go against a driver for every one that would help. Everything a driver does besides hold the wheel with 2 hands, and check the mirrors is a cause for distracted driving. Including sneezing, drinking coffee, definitely smoking, anything you can do while driving that's not driving. Even taking sunglasses on or off.

Outward facing cameras I'm a big fan of, I wish my truck had them all over the place, with a big SMILE YOU'RE ON CAMERA sticker on all sides of the trailer.

 

The camera is to show evidence of what the driver was doing when something happened. Drive like the cops and the boss are watching what you are doing.

 

You don't have a clue why they are there.

Because you don't, it has nothing to do with "mass surveillance" but for insurance reasons.

Go talk to a few commercial insurers, and see why they want them.

 

If the cam is AI monitored, every yawn, every eye blink, every episode of Cheetos and pocketbook will be recorded and the cattle prods will activate.

 

I wouldn't be so sure about that, I've heard, there are literally giant rooms full of people watching monitors in the Philippines, watching for infractions. Big Brother is indeed watching, and that was written in 1948! ( the reason he used 1984, is it was opposite of 1948)

 

Limited experience with outward facing cameras before I retired.

The number of recorded 'alerts' from a 12-truck fleet was enormous.

The 'cloverleaf' interchange was started in New Jersey long before federal standards and many of the original, think extremely tight radius curves, ramps initiated potential 'incidents' daily among a large number of other potential 'incidents' throughout the driver's day.

Most of the incidents were understandable situations and were dismissed when viewed; a time-consuming chore.

Now add in the A/I flagging every eyebrow scratch and shift of the driver's seating position when one wiggles around for comfort and the amount of 'reported' items has to be enormous.

I do recall that we could log into any unit and review the current trip from the start to the current minute, including the roadside rest area 'nap' enroute to the first customer.

Unfortunately, the insurance carriers will continue to push for cameras, and I predict that built in systems will become a fleet option from the manufacturers soon.

 

That's already here. Freightliner I'm in has factory forward facing and in-cab that's not used or turned on.