Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers

An anonymous reader writes: In the aftermath of the derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia a couple weeks ago, the company has caved to demands that it install video cameras to monitor and record the actions of the engineers driving their trains. The National Transportation Safety Board has been recommending such cameras for the past five years. Amtrak CEO Joe Boardman says the cameras will improve train safety, though the engineers' union disagrees. In 2013, the union's president said, "Installation of cameras will provide the public nothing more than a false sense of security. More than a century of research establishes that monitoring workers actually reduces the ability to perform complex tasks, such as operating a train, because of the distractive effect."

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Re:The death of privacy

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Exactly, how is this any different than black boxes on airplanes? It isn't. Shave off the beard, take off that fucking ridiculous hat and just drive the fucking train, bus, plane, undersea-copter, or whatever the fuck you have to do because you failed to read the right books and now you have low job skills and you have a job where you drive other people around for a living! Good work, idiot. Seriously, airline pilots? Those guys have to have navigation and engineering skills, all those other jobs are just some guy who's going to get replaced by a robot.

Dear Robot Uber Driver,
        Let's work on this!

-Another Guy who will write software for those fucking robots to replace dumb humans