Before getting into this story, it's important to establish the purpose of the dashboard cameras in police cars. Typically these cameras are used to record the cops beating up black people and the footage is used to indict the cop. The other application for the camera is when the cop gets into a high-speed chase with a kid whose car has a broken tail light and the camera shows the kid's car plowing into a school bus at ninety mph because of the chase. This footage then winds up on Funniest Police Videos as people like to watch that stuff on their big-screen televisions.
So it was inevitable that some wizard car designer would put dashboard cameras into private vehicles and, voila, we have the 2015 Corvette. (AP: Corvette will let owners record, share drives)
There are several things we know about this device without even seeing it in action:
It doesn't take Kreskin to foretell the future of these devices as the very next thing that will happen with dashboard cameras in privately-owned vehicles is that law will come to require them to be active at all times. The footage will then be used by insurance companies for accident investigation.
Since we love the NSA so much, it shouldn't be too tough to foresee them harvesting the view from automotive dashboard cameras in real time as this would give them the mobile drones they need to see just about anywhere, anytime. Think of it as your patriotic duty to install expensive equipment in your car just so some spy agency can use it.
Hat tip to Lotho for telling me about this one.
So it was inevitable that some wizard car designer would put dashboard cameras into private vehicles and, voila, we have the 2015 Corvette. (AP: Corvette will let owners record, share drives)
There are several things we know about this device without even seeing it in action:
- It still will not make a Corvette as fast as a Pagani Zonda
- When the cop who stops you says "Play it again, Sam," he's not talking about a song
- This camera will encourage middle-aged fat guys to drive faster than their abilities rather than hanging about on Facebook talking about the weather
It doesn't take Kreskin to foretell the future of these devices as the very next thing that will happen with dashboard cameras in privately-owned vehicles is that law will come to require them to be active at all times. The footage will then be used by insurance companies for accident investigation.
Since we love the NSA so much, it shouldn't be too tough to foresee them harvesting the view from automotive dashboard cameras in real time as this would give them the mobile drones they need to see just about anywhere, anytime. Think of it as your patriotic duty to install expensive equipment in your car just so some spy agency can use it.
Hat tip to Lotho for telling me about this one.
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