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“The problem in trucking is that drivers are incentivized to work themselves well beyond healthy limits—sometimes to death.”
This heart-breaking story on the digital surveillance of long-haul truckers is worth your time — because trucking is a place where worker surveillance is being tested.
And not just worker surveillance! Artificial intelligence is used, for instance, for “an array of prototypes that will likely define the future of automated oversight: biometric cameras that can monitor truckers’ eyelids for fatigue, or biometric vests that can detect a heart attack.”
Truckers deserve better.
Surveillance and the Loneliness of the Long-Distance Trucker
[The New Yorker]
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