Everything I do on my bus during the day is videotaped, in three dimensions. There’s a cam pointing toward the passenger door from above the drivers seat, a cam pointing back towards the entire seating area and one pointing directly at the lift.
I can’t pick my nose or scratch my crotch without running the risk that it might ultimately be on YouTube. Our safety and training guy was up here last week and showed me a video taken from these cams of a couple of ladies who weren’t wearing seatbelts when the bus they were riding in was broadsided. Not pretty, but the video quality was impressive…
The reason I mention YouTube is because it is what it is and video is just a file in a directory. I’m really not worried about my privacy being violated, as long as stuff doesn’t happen, since the camera hard drives roll over about every three days, but still…
It’s an interesting experience to know that your every move during the day, and everything you say, is being recorded. If some fool came across the line and killed me, the way I spent my final hours, and what I said, would be my video legacy.
When I was at TRPTA A lot of the drivers had a real issue when the cameras were added but they were grateful when they “The drivers” were vindicated of wrong claims against them. It helped cover their ass when passengers accused the drivers of wrong doing, but it also helped to fire drivers that fabricated the accidents with clients. Mike and I laughed about the time my jeep escaped and hit a tree. And the mechanic that dance on top of a bus. GOOD TIMES
You are missed…
Thanks