Hey All,
As I may or may not have posted earlier, I've decided to begin a new career as a long-haul (known as "over the road") truck driver. I'm current about 3/4 of the way to obtaining my Commercial Driver's License, after which I will start working for a commercial trucking firm.
On of the things which has been mentioned repeatedly in my training thus far are the existence of dangerous blind spots around the circumference of a truck+trailer combination vehicle, particularly directly to the rear and the several feet closest to the front and driver's door.
The informational material provided for new employees by the company for which I will be working mentions that their spiffy, high-tech trucks [average fleet age is 13 months] feature wireless internet access.
So it occured to me . . . shouldn't it be possible to get some wireless webcams, epoxy magnets to their cases and set these up to cover the blindspots, by feeding their signals to a touchscreen tablet mounted on my dash?
[NOTE: I have mentioned this to two people so far, my classroom instructor and a young fellow trainee who happens to be headed to the same company as I am. My instructor's only comment was that I'd better put them in my pocket every time I stopped or they'd end up "missing." My fellow trainee looked panicked and said, "Oh, no! You can't do that, due to privacy issues!" . . . but upon reflection, I think his panic likely came from the thought of the company remotely watching how he was driving in real time . . .).]
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Richard Aiken
"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein
"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby
"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester