So, now we have smart cameras in our trucks

Yep, maybe sooner. But never in a truck I driver. I’ll hand the keys back before going a mile in a truck with a camera facing me or any other bs technology that will impede me driving it.

 

I got dinged for not stopping at a stop sign last winter. I had accidentally gone down a frontage road instead of the highway. Snow and ice everywhere. I was coming to the next raised offramp at night. No other vehicles in sight anywhere. The stop sign was at the top of an uphill incline. I rolled through it, afraid if I stopped, I wouldn't get going again, I had a heavy load as it was and used the momentum to carry me through. Tried talking to the safety guy about why I didn't come to a complete stop. I did slow down to about 2mph. He wasn't buying any of it. Idiot, he wasn't there. As a driver I do my best to make the safest choices available. I'd run that stop sign again under the same conditions, it was the safest thing to do, the safety guy was just too warped in me not coming to a complete stop to have an open mind that there are circumstances where not completely stopping IS the safer choice.
In the end, I just ate the safety ding, it was considered minor anyway and dropped off after 3 months.
I am BIG into safety, no question about it. But, it perturbes me that a lot of these safety guys seem to have no realistic clue that under normal conditions, doing something that would be considered the correct and safe thing, is actually NOT the safe or correct thing to do in an unusual situation.

 

We have cameras in our trucks that detect stop signs and can read speed limit signs.

If I dont come to a complete stop and remain stopped for 3+ seconds it says I rolled through the stop sign at 3 mph, as it takes a few sexonds to detect speed accurately.

It will also say say I'm speeding if I'm going more than 5+ mph over what the sign says 5 seconds after I pass the sign. But once the sign is 30 seconds behind me I can go as fast as I want and it wont detect the speeding until it detects another speed limit sign. But it also mistakes numbered highway signs as speed limits, or thinks I'm speeding at 67 mph when it sees a limit of 70 mph/40 mph minimum. It is thoroughly flawed IMO.

 

If they have never drove a truck they will never understand.

 

A company I use to work for had cameras that picked up speed limit signs. They were so screwed up that they would pick up the speed limit signs for the scale entrance that you got the green light on your Prepass for, but were still in the right lane of the interstate doing the company speed limit(68)...it took a while for the safety department to figure out they should actually run the camera footage back a few minutes to see where the drivers were before writing them up for doing 68 in a 30.

 

I don’t have much of a problem with outside cameras, it’s the driver facing cameras that are the problem.

 

I have found my best course of action is to not answer the phone when they call. They can talk to voicemail.