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from the smile-you-are-on-Candid-Camera dept.
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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2015, @04:15AM
Why install them if they don't plan to use them ? Doesn't pass the smell test.
Controlling behavior. Even if the users aren't actually watched, having the possibility back on your mind will affect you.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday March 18 2015, @05:33AM
"having the possibility back on your mind will affect you."
Yes it will. I won't rent from Hertz. Anything. Ever.
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