They’re not actually monitoring that specific thing. They have a camera looking at the drivers and the recognition software happens to interpret singing as the driver being “distracted”, but they don’t actually want to modify the software so they are doubling down on what the software has decided.
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solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agocouldn’t amazon just tap into the audio feed then?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
heyoni@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
They called me a shill for pointing that out lol.
FarFarAway@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Kinda the same way my car tells me I’m not looking at the road if I tilt my head 2 inches to the side or back. Its constantly giving me warning, and I’m constantly yelling that I am looking at the road! How else could I go around this turn!
At least I have the option of covering it with black electrical tape. Jeeze.
DrPop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As someone who wears glasses I have to turn my head to check my mirrors. I would get so frustrated with that.
eramseth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This isn’t right. Singing also counts as distracted.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Debatable.
Should car radios be illegal then?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I, for one, am in favor of volume limits. Too many times ambulances get stuck behind cars whose drivers simply cannot hear the siren.
eramseth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not necessarily, but there’s a difference between something being illegal and something being perceived by an insurance company as increasing risk. There are a lot of things that are legal and risky.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The real question is… why the fuck should anyone be micromanaged to this fucking extent. It’s probably hurting actual productivity… even if their broken ass metrics are showing an improvement.
It fucking sucks to be deprived of the joy in what you do - there isn’t much joy in delivery to begin with but vibing to the music while driving down an empty stretch of road is one of the little ones… the more you suck the joy out of a job the less shits your employees will give.
eramseth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Heard about this a while back. I think the real explanation is that amazon wants cameras in their vehicles to monitor their drivers. But Amazon’s insurer says “if you have this video we want to see it, and if your drivers are distracted in general, your insurance rates are going up” and/or when there’s an incident, any evidence of distracted driving will be leveraged against amazon… so instead of getting rid of the cameras, they are micromanaging their employees not to be distracted while driving, where “distracted” includes talking on the phone and also singing or speaking.
It’s all really shitty tbh.
I get that with a company as big as Amazon, small margins can make a big difference, but… pretty sure that’s just an argument against giant fucking companies running everything…
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
maybe it’s because the more time wage slaves are thinking about not being allowed to sing, the less time they’re thinking about how shitty the pay is
TommySoda@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even slaves were allowed to sing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had a job where my boss got angry at me for playing music in my office with the door closed, because I was wasting bandwidth. On my ipod. So I used headphones.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now I want to see a black Amazon driver dressed as a slave, singing “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”, and getting chewed out for it over an in-van loudspeaker.
“Yuhsir! Won’t happen again suh!”
Can you imagine the emergency PR meetings?!
TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I feel like the more workers are generally miserable, the more they’ll be disgruntled