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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) by tftp on Thursday March 19 2015, @04:31AM
Is that gonna make my rate go up?
You may find words like these on the page 811 of your Car Rental Agreement:
3615.1: The Customer agrees to not obstruct or otherwise interfere with technologies of Remote Monitoring of Well-Being™, whatever they may be and however they may be implemented in the rented vehicle. If the service of Remote Monitoring detects failure in operation of the said systems, the vehicle will be remotely disabled to ensure continued Well-Being of the Customer and their passengers. Customer agrees to the surcharge [of $300] per each incident of tampering with the vehicle's systems.