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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   Printer-friendly
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

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday March 18 2015, @05:13PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday March 18 2015, @05:13PM (#159467) Journal

    Sticking wads of gum on things is not illegal, is it?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2015, @05:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2015, @05:36PM (#159480)

    I think it is in Singapore. I think it is illegal to chew gum there.

  • (Score: 1) by redneckmother on Wednesday March 18 2015, @07:09PM

    by redneckmother (3597) on Wednesday March 18 2015, @07:09PM (#159533)

    Vandalism is unlawful. Illegal is a sick bird. (groan).

    Thanks. I'll be here all week (weak?).

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