And how much money is Swift paying this company to 'watch until we do something wrong'?
How many people would that take, just for the thousands of Swift drivers?
At a guess, Swift would be paying tens of thousands every day to monitor that closely.
Not bloody likely, in my opinion.
Camera's are coming to a truck near you or Yours.
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The service is to watch the uploaded videos of events that happened and to evaluate them to determine if it needs to be sent to Swift.
Getsinyourblood Thanks this. -
The safety guy said he sees the videos they send to Swift all the time. Didn't see any reason to not believe he was being truthful.
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The cameras in the truck's don't stream. Aside from being illegal, the data costs would be astronomical.
Assuming two standard definition streams (250 MB/hr) for 720 hours a month... 360 gigs a month. Times 10,000 trucks. -
Don't you mean 250MB per minute?
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No they don't stream the trucks, like you said be cost prohibitive. But the cameras do have the capability to stream and that's a hundred percent accurate but the software they have it in there now it doesn't allow it.
But all they have to do is take a software / firmware update for them to do it. And they can do a few other things too like have it go off at a certain time for 20 seconds. Not Swift but the company can do that.
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The thing is, they don't even need to stream.
There is at least an hour of video stored in the looping files, split into 10 or 20 second clips, that they can simply download and view at will.
They are simple files of maybe 2-3MB each, and as easy as copying a file from one folder to another.
They do not need a real time feed when they can see it just after the fact.
Still, grabbing the right files at the right time - it would be pure luck to find something wrong in that minute or so.
We have been told by Swift that the cameras have 8GB of storage.
I had a camera with 64GB of storage, with 32 dedicated to the looping video.
At 1080P I had over 10 hours of video in that 32GB folder. So with 8GB at the same ratio, there would be a bit over 1 hour of looped files. 1.25 hours.
The thing is, I could change the ratio from 50/50 to 60/40 or 70/30.
But I had to do it through the WiFi connection.
Many of the 'advanced' options could only be controlled through the WiFi connection.
And the cameras have a WiFi connection.
Through that WiFi connection I also had the ability to download any clip from anywhere I was connected by a smartphone app.
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Why only 'the company'?
Why not the company at Swift's request?
But then again, that would be a lot more money being spent with dubious results.
The people running things at Swift are not stupid nor ignorant - even though they often treat drivers that way on both ends of the equation.
I'm watching Lost, again. And something Ben told James is telling.
He told James... 'You are a good con man, one of the best. But, we are better.' -
Depends how much hands on swift wants to be...... But like I said I have no dog in this fight. Just know how the cam company operates to a certain extent, long-time friend with one of the higher-ups in that company.
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