Driver-facing camera test

actually it stores what ever GB it holds. then it loops back over it.

 

yup

 

Apparently, you do not understand how these cameras work. They tell you that if a triggering event occurs that the camera saves a certain number of seconds BEFORE and after an accident. Do you know what that means? It means the darn thing is on ALL of the time. Otherwise it could not save data from before a triggering event. They will also tell you that they can not remotely view the camera in your truck. Then how could they know to ask you what is blocking the lens if they can not remotely view it? What is "whack" is that you do not think through how these things work, and that you blindly believe the assurances of people you probably know have fibbed to you about other things. There are numerous ways to determine what happened in an accident. The driver facing camera is designed exclusively to try to relieve the company of guilt in the event of an accident and put it on the driver. If they trust me, they trust me. If they do not, they should fire me before the accident even happens. Yes, these driver cameras are an invasion of privacy. There is no other way to look at them. Every OTR driver out here undresses from time to time, or every night in their truck. It is not appropriate to have a functioning camera in my house when I am off duty. Yeah yeah, I know it is their truck....blah blah blah. But they gave it to me and know and expect that I live in it while off duty. You people who accept them without question will some day ponder why the DOT made them mandatory. And that will happen if too large a percentage of drivers allow their adoption. These megas will be lobbying through the ATA how great they are. We ALL should have them for safety and to help level the playing field. But it wont matter. Because if enough of you allow their widespread adoption and eventual mandate, I wont be in the industry any more. That is all.

 

Also, apparently, you missed my point of being ok using them if I was in a local job. I am not concerned with what they record me doing while I am driving the truck. I have 27 accident free years driving OTR. The camera will not find me doing something I am not supposed to be doing. It also will not record me in my birthday suit jumping through the curtain to see who hit my darned truck at 3 a.m. before they drive away.

 

Inward facing cameras will not exonerate you, only convict you.

I dont care what their rationale is, my answer is no.

 

And this is what will have them in trucks, not a government mandate.

 

oh boy get out the tinfoil hats

 

Just wait until plaintiffs attorneys start requesting the past year's worth of video clips during discovery...and then stringing together a 30 minute video of clip after clip after clip of the driver eating, drinking, adjusting his position in the seat, looking at his notes/map/gps, or doing anything OTHER than eyes forward with both hands on the wheel in order to paint the driver (who may have been doing everything right in THIS crash) as a menace to society and an accident waiting to happen. Those clips exist somewhere, because every bad pothole...every hard brake...every lane departure...and whatever else might set it off, records another 15 seconds or so of potential misbehavior without much context. Each incident by itself is no big deal...but strung together back-to-back-to-back, the insurance company will be paying out MORE than if the only camera present faced forward.