Amazon driver breaks down the A.I. system watching workers for safety violations like drinking coffee while driving and counting the times they buckle their seatbelt - Fortune
In 2021, Amazon started installing artificial intelligence cameras to monitor its delivery drivers while they work. The e-commerce giant claimed that the technology was meant to prevent accidents. The cameras record "100% of the time," Amazon told CNBC, with four lenses capturing the road, driver, and sides of the vehicle to flag 16 different safety violations including speeding, failing to stop at a stop sign, hard-breaking, or distracted driving. But according to one Amazon worker, the A.I. system can be used to "ding" drivers over numerous violations. "If I want a sip of my coffee I have to pull over" The driver, with the username @ambergirts, took to TikTok to show off the tracking system in her company vehicle. "That little guy is how we are tracked," Amber Girts said while zooming her camera in on a rectangular contraption attached to her rearview mirror. "It's probably reco...