Camera question

so a lot lizard bouncing on my steering wheel won’t activate camera?

 

There is difference between cameras with set up to record video OUTSIDE ONLY , and cameras setup inside driver cabin to monitor every single driver move

 

My company units have forward facing cameras that record all the time. The 'net nanny' feature provides a fleet dashboard mentioning hard braking and rolling stops, etc. and when I review these 'offenses'; 99% are the camera being too sensitive.

I have the same guy with multiple 'hard braking' and he's doing stop and go out Sunrise Highway and stopping for the red lights at 4 MPH was hard braking; stop light after stop light....

'Nother guy making repeated trips and using a few NJ cloverleaf interchanges that were truly the first in the country is getting hard breaking at the same short curving ramp every trip...

Unless there is an army of reviewing people; there will be so many of these mundane alerts. Most of my 'rolling stops' were odd stop signs hanging on battered interior fences where NOBODY stops. Stuff that will be sleep inducing.

HOWEVER; watch out for defensive use as it may backfire!

One of my class B trucks has been the source of numerous telephone complaints, usually a 4 wheeler on his right at some sort of merge and being well aware of the normal motorist ignorance of CMV blind spots we haven't been able to confirm it it is blind spot or his driving.

As he is the only guy over the past 10 years to have repeated telephone calls I had my doubts.

He calls dispatch, someone just took out the RF blind spot mirror and kept going. Now he has the guy and a State Trooper who wants the video of the impact. Get with IT an he pulls scan until we see the trade van's upper LR door hinge pop the convex mirror out without destroying anything else. sent a RAW one minute file to the trooper who also requests the minute prior AND a short time later where our guy confronted [forced] the van to stop.

####, I couldn't understand why the driver made such a 'thing' about this over a $10.00 3 inch convex spot mirror!

The prior minute shows we may have trapped the van as we merged from the left lane crossing over to get onto the interstate. The van was on the tiger stripes when he clipped the mirror.

The other video shows our guy forcing his way in front of the van on an exit ramp. Our 6 wheeler drove down the shoulder to do this.

He also has two citations and a court date over in PA...all over a 3" spot mirror that anyone would have said some truck did it on the interstate and we would have replaced it no questions....

On the other hand the detail available could really save someone's career in a bad situation...I wouldn't install driver facing stuff.

 

If you apply that powder to your nads, you won’t itch in your never nevers, or so I’m told.

 

Nope, but bouncing on your gear shift will!

As usual, I'm here all week folks...

 

It’s on all the time recording…it has to be.

When a critical event happens it saves pre and post events. If it wasn’t on all the time it wouldn’t be able to save pre event.

 

Forward facing only protects you if you have complete control of it. In other words, I’d only have evidence if I was 100% not at fault..anything less..sorry, I forgot to plug it in or accidentally deleted the evidence

 

You know some lawyer will use crewing gum and changing the AC settings as distracted driving.
Or even better yawning as driving while not rested


No thanks.
Driver facing cameras are evil