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1st Gear: It’s Just A Giant Dashcam For Spying On Drivers
In an unlisted video on Vimeo embedded below, Amazon claimed it’s “setting its drivers up for success” with what appears to be a combination of a four-way dashcam and OnStar.
It watches drivers and starts an alert if it detects what it considers distracted driving or any other unsafe behavior, as The Verge reports from news broken by The Information:
An unlisted, week-old video hosted on the website Vimeo details the partnership. It’s narrated by Karolina Haraldsdottir, Amazon’s senior manager for last-mile safety, and outlines the company’s goals as reducing collisions and holding drivers more accountable for mistakes on the road. The initiative mirrors one Amazon has taken with its long-haul trucking fleet, in which SmartDrive cameras monitor freight drivers for signs of fatigue and distracted driving, according to a separate report from