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Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses? |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 16 15:10:53 2017  There's another one on the driver's side. |
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Re: Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses? |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 16 15:51:24 2017, in response to Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses?, posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 16 15:10:53 2017. Here's another view
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Re: Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses? |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Feb 16 19:39:10 2017, in response to Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses?, posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 16 15:10:53 2017. I was wondering what those things were. |
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Re: Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses? |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 16 21:04:29 2017, in response to Re: Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses?, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Feb 16 19:39:10 2017. Their placement in the back is strange. I gotta take a ride on one of these buses and see what the set-up is.If anyone is interested in an exhaustive study on the elimination of blind spots on transit buses, check out this study. |
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Re: Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses? |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 16 21:18:48 2017, in response to Re: Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses?, posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 16 21:04:29 2017. Now I'm thinking that maybe these cameras are meant to cover the blind spot when a bus is making a right or left turn. There have been cases where pedestrians have been run over by the turning bus.turning bus dangers |
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Re: Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses? |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Feb 16 22:41:12 2017, in response to Have They Installed Blind Spot Cameras on The Sides of the 73xx Series Buses?, posted by heypaul on Thu Feb 16 15:10:53 2017. They appear to be the RoscoVision Shield+ Technology sensors. The MTA committed to try it out during a City Council hearing. Here's a link to the company's web page.The MTA was pushed into this by the City Council. Two interesting points. Rosco is a local company (Jamaica Queens). (N.B. the detection technology isn't local. It's MobilEye, which is an Israeli company.) The MTA has averaged $20K per bus in annual liability awards. That's about 3 times the national average. The RoscoVision system cost per bus is less than a single year's liability awards. |
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