This sort of conversation always reminds me of the song "Monitor" by Siouxsie and the Banshees.
I once worked a contract job for Redflex, the Australian-owned intersection camera company. In the lobby they had a big screen TV showing all sorts of horrible car accidents that were caught by their intersection cameras. It was a job and I needed one. While I was there, I was noticing things and making remarks like, "It seems that these cameras don't actually prevent these terrible accidents, but rather just capture them for the benefit of police and lawyers." Oh boy, they didn't like hearing that and I didn't last long. I also was looking into how those cameras can actually cause accidents, especially when people might suddenly slam their brakes because they are too anxious to avoid the camera taking a picture of them and they end up getting rear-ended.
This sort of conversation always reminds me of the song "Monitor" by Siouxsie and the Banshees.
I once worked a contract job for Redflex, the Australian-owned intersection camera company. In the lobby they had a big screen TV showing all sorts of horrible car accidents that were caught by their intersection cameras. It was a job and I needed one. While I was there, I was noticing things and making remarks like, "It seems that these cameras don't actually prevent these terrible accidents, but rather just capture them for the benefit of police and lawyers." Oh boy, they didn't like hearing that and I didn't last long. I also was looking into how those cameras can actually cause accidents, especially when people might suddenly slam their brakes because they are too anxious to avoid the camera taking a picture of them and they end up getting rear-ended.