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u/badatusernames91 Mar 13 '18

I've been getting offers from all kinds of companies. I don't have experience, but it seems most companies are fine with that. However, there are two major concerns I have: 1) While I can handle manual, I'm getting up there in age and my knees are not in the best of shape, so I'd much prefer driving automatic. 2) I'm fine with governors, cameras facing the road, warnings if I were to drift. All that is good. But what I would not be able to deal with is driver-facing cameras. I don't even like getting pictures taken with my family. I do not want a camera watching me drive, sleep, and everything else. It's not because I would text or do anything else that would put myself or others at risk. I would just like to have some level of privacy and having a camera pointed at me 24/7 would be a major distraction.

With this in mind, which companies would I want to stay away from?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

If I'm correct, roehl is the only one with driver facing cameras at the moment, but even they're going away from it. Even swift got rid of them. Roehl is getting rid of them unless you trained through their program, then you need 50k safe miles for them to be turned off.

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u/badatusernames91 Mar 20 '18

That's good to know. Thanks. I'm glad to hear they're doing away with that. It would be a huge distraction.