Joke’s on you, they don’t even have enough school bus drivers for my kid’s school so they pay parents $50 a month to drive them.
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Wow. If it takes 30 minutes to drop them off, that's like $4.55/day. Plus you get to use your own vehicle. Sign me up!
Dammit. I'm going to feel really bad when I have to start flipping off school busses.
The kids would love it, don’t feel bad.
This is the new, improved USA: whatever regulation still exists is being stripped down as we speak and new companies are seizing newly created "opportunities" without any sense of propriety, not even to speak of morals or ethics.
Joke's on them for investing in education when the current administration would rather no one went to school.
If there's a Camara, they can do anything with that visual data they want. Why are people so fuckig naive that they still believe anything industry says about their goals and motives?
People who pass busses should be curb stomped in the street not spyed on by big brother.
Agreed, the same for racing through active school zones. The beating for not slowing down and moving over for a tow truck or stopped emergency vehicle should be only slightly more mild. These are as key to driving as red=stop and green=go.
Other countries have camera issues because the government has turned into a nanny state. In the US it’s because some corporation has found yet another way to collect fees from regular people by injecting themselves into and extending a government program.
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So I'm already assuming all Amazon trucks, any other large delivery vehicles, (edit to add all Teslas, probably) city fleet cars, city buses,Google maps/TomTom and others with those 360° cameras all do this already. Now I have to worry about school buses too? From what I understand, Flock (ALPR) cameras also do facial recognition and tracking (is this right?). WHERE DOES IT END
jokes on me for not having a real "jokes on _____" ready in this thread
Maybe the real joke on you is the friends we made along the way
I believe we already have cars that do exactly this in my city
If I understand it right, they just hire people to drive around all day while the car reads and tracks license plates of other vehicles they pass
I forget the company name, but the logo is an almost circle made out of leaves and some kind of roman helmet
JFC! They just won't quit will they?
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