Driver facing camera

Think he is trying to point out that it is one single unit with a lens front and back. I agree about it being good to use against repeat offenders doing stuff they shouldn't. However I strongly disagree with the footage also being misinterpreted to show a good driver as being unsafe by anyone who might want to pick apart any moment an event triggered or from multiple instances as unsafe whenever they need it to be.

 

You can bet these ambulance chasing lawyers will just love these drive cams..facing inwards...I don't care what the circumstances are a shady atty will find something to go after company for...why on earth would anyone incriminate yourselves by doing this..record around the outside of truck,front and sides...

 

I need to learn to stop trying to help people who already know it all.

 

A civil action has a much lower threshold for assessing fault and the fault can be split with both parties being given a % of blame.
Taking a CMV drivers video and compare that to the nonexistent video of the other party. Was the CMV driver doing everything by the book?
Read how the NTSB assigns a
contributing fault to pilots based on ####pit voice recordings and they are objective; a lawyer doesn't have to be objective nor do they have to avoid pejorative characterizations.
You could be right but I wouldn't bet my livelihood or freedom on a lawyer being honest or take my needs into consideration if they are opposing counsel

 

"Pejorative". I had to look that one up.

 

Choice is a good thing...

I choose not to have drivers. I only bring on people to want to own their own companies. Not the lease operator type.

 

I really don't understand this response.

It shows 8 seconds of green light.
OK.
But you have nothing before or after that?
Swift's cameras will show the 10 seconds before the event triggers, and the 10 seconds after.
I doubt the light stayed green for 8 seconds after the hard braking event triggered if what you said was true. Yet you didn't mention that part.
If you had video of 8 seconds after the braking event triggered the camera, there would be many seconds of a red light.

The green light was not on the drivers face.
OK.
What does that have to do with anything?
I doubt any camera could detect the faint color difference on the drivers face from a very small light in daylight.

It's a single unit.
OK.
So the front facing and driver facing cameras are in the same unit.
Big deal, we already know that.

The last point is entirely moot, because I do understand it all too well.
I have had dash cams, and I was a computer tech for over 12 years.
In fact, the place I had the most experience at specialized in computer video graphics and video editing.
I was the guy that designed and built every system for nearly 10 years in that little place.
And that was before digital anything! It was all analog, and arrays of 9MB hard drives to get 30MB/s speeds and $30,000 computer systems that achieved much higher video quality than anything seen these days.

Those days may be over, but my understanding of what current tech can do isn't.

 

Yes, I think you do.

You can't BS someone that knows what can be done.
And if it can be done, it probably is being done.

 

If they put a camera facing the driver it has to record continually in order to capture the time before during and after an event. The trigger ( such as a hard brake ) saves or protects the recorded time and image as well as a pre determined length of time before and after the event from being recorded over. Why would anybody want a record of what they were doing inside the cab. The company wants it to deflect responsibility on to the driver in an event.

If SNI puts them in IC trucks they will see an exodus of drivers as will the industry as a whole in my opinion.

The truck is my home away from home and that would be an invasion of my privacy. A forward out the windshield camera I can handle.

 

The Swift cam will record 24/7.
We will be allowed to cover the camera while off duty, but it will still be recording - and that means audio if the lens is covered.

Anything we say will be recorded, until it is overwritten on the loop.

And we have also been told that the camera has a 4GB internal memory storage capacity.