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.