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Hertz Puts Video Cameras Inside Its Rental Cars, Has 'No Current Plans' To Use Them.

posted by janrinok on Wednesday March 18 2015, @01:36AM   
from the smile-you-are-on-Candid-Camera dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Why install them if they don't plan to use them ? Doesn't pass the smell test.

Fusion site passes on the news that Hertz is putting cameras inside its rental cars as part of its "NeverLost" navigational system:

Hertz has offered the NeverLost navigational device for years, but it only added the built-in camera feature (which includes audio and video) to its latest version of the device -- NeverLost 6 -- in mid-2014. "Approximately a quarter of our vehicles across the country have a NeverLost unit and slightly more than half of those vehicles have the NeverLost 6 model installed,” Hertz spokesperson Evelin Imperatrice said by email. In other words, one in 8 Hertz cars has a camera inside -- but Imperatrice says that, for now, they are inactive. "We do not have adequate bandwidth capabilities to the car to support streaming video at this time," she said.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150316/08270530325/hertz-puts-video-cameras-inside-its-rental-cars-has-no-current-plans-to-use-them.shtml

• Re:I-O-N Re:I-O-N (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday March 18 2015, @02:24AM

  by TheGratefulNet (659) on Wednesday March 18 2015, @02:24AM (#159170)

  goatse images (and other disturbing ones) could be optically piped into the tiny camera. would be 'great fun' to send that kind of data thru the camera. you'd probably never hear back about it, but you'd still know that if anyone DID look, they'd be punished. which is a Good Thing(tm). spies should always be punished (absolutely).

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• Re:I-O-N (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 18 2015, @03:10AM

  by c0lo (156) on Wednesday March 18 2015, @03:10AM (#159180) Journal

  horror movie scenes (and other disturbing ones)

  FTFY - movie pictures makes the spies' punishment better.
  Suggestion: Human Centipede [wikipedia.org]

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• Re:I-O-N (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2015, @04:12AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2015, @04:12AM (#159192)

  > goatse images (and other disturbing ones) could be optically piped into the tiny camera.
  > spies should always be punished

  Sounds like you have a fetish.
  I have been a bad, bad spy. Do you want to punish me?

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• Re:I-O-N (Score: 5, Funny) by middlemen on Wednesday March 18 2015, @04:46AM

  by middlemen (504) on Wednesday March 18 2015, @04:46AM (#159205) Homepage

  goatse images (and other disturbing ones) could be optically piped into the tiny camera.

  with the title my butt hertz!

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