Amazon Drivers Could Be Wearing AR Glasses With a Built-In Display Next Year (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/2352203/amazon-drivers-could-be-wearing-ar-glasses-with-a-built-in-display-next-year
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/776155/amazon-augmented-reality-glasses-jayhawk-launch-rumors
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/776155/amazon-augmented-reality-glasses-jayhawk-launch-rumors
[2] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-developing-ar-glasses-challenge-meta
[3] https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-developing-driver-eyeglasses-shave-seconds-off-deliveries-sources-say-2024-11-11/
This just in... (Score:5, Interesting)
GIant Consumer Corporation wants to make their already over-watched and over-worked employees even more efficient by removing any sort of choice from their daily work life.
I guess if any company were to do this, Amazon makes the most sense as they already view their employees like robots. No more guess work! Also, don't forget to remove the glasses when you pee into the bottle or now they'll know you actually took that toilet break anyway. Though I bet if you remove the glasses they know that too. :(
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Go with automated vehicles, robots, and drones for doorstep deliveries. It eliminates the issues of being "over-watched and over-worked" while reducing community-related concerns.
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I actually used Glass in the wild for a while back in 2014, including at a conference (Wikimania in London). It was instructive in many ways, and does not now make me hunger for all the product Meta is desperately trying to shift in this context. Before 2020 I was mildly interested in Snap's product but there are a whole bunch of things that bother me about that whole product space now
Turn-by-turn using eyewear? (Score:3)
Is this legal in the US? The driver receiving "turn-by-turn navigation on a small embedded screen.'" using AR glasses.
Won't that occlude some part of the driver's view of the windshield?
Re:Turn-by-turn using eyewear? (Score:5, Informative)
It's see through.
Windshield HUD seems a lot more comfortable though.
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> Is this legal in the US? The driver receiving "turn-by-turn navigation on a small embedded screen.'" using AR glasses.
> Won't that occlude some part of the driver's view of the windshield?
You should know by now in the Corporate States of America, anything the corporations want to do is totally legal and they shouldn't have to pay any tax on it.
Things like laws and taxes are for the little people, like you.
Good (Score:5, Funny)
"No dummy, that house ... you know, the one with the huge number over the garage and by the door, that matches the number on the package."
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No... No... That porch is too close. I need to launch the packages at least 50ft in order for it to count.
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Ah yes. The good old UPS three point shot.
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If it only was always so easy. But cities can be messy. I know some drivers and very often they have a really hard time finding the correct delivery recipients.
I'll Take That Bet (Score:1)
Short!
Foo you, pay me (Score:1)
Is Amazon fitting the bill for higher insurance rates? Because all this will do is introduce more distractions and more risk and all of us will have to pay for their experiment in the end.
It is not wrong to want to be compensated for involuntarily being a part of Amazons experiment!
the DSP pays for that but this pushes them to join (Score:2)
the DSP pays for that but this pushes them to joint employers so going union can be easier.
Who pays the insurance for Amazon's trucks? (Score:2)
> Is Amazon fitting the bill for higher insurance rates?
This question surprised me.
Before we tackle the unlikely possibility that this raises insurance rates, your question makes me realize there's another question you might want to try to answer first:
Who do you think currently pays for the insurance on Amazon's vehicles?
And another: do you think that by Amazon making the choice to deploy an additional piece of driver hardware, the insurance-premium-paying party in the above question, would change?
Driver more not Diver less (Score:2)
Before GPS systems were common you would have actually pre-planed your routes using PAPER map books. We learned our routes and shortcuts by just by driving them and in turn doing so made our deliveries faster. We learned short cuts and ways around traffic snarls this way too.
Spoon feeding turn by turns to someone is likely to have the opposite effect. Because they will have less of a need in learning landmarks and street names and what happens when those systems take a dump? You will be screwed because you
GREAT idea (Score:2)
I see no problems with look at "something else" while driving, no siree... /s Will the Darwin Awards be covering AR deaths, too?
Wagie, wagie (Score:1)
Wagie, wagie, get in cagie,
Put on the specs, obey the pagie.
Glowing screens before your eyes,
Voices whisper hums and lies.
Parcels beep their numbered fate,
The pace is timed, your path ornate.
The chains are soft, the leash is sleek,
A velvet yoke upon the meek.
Ten thousand doors, ten thousand gates,
But none are yours; you shift the weights.
The lenses gleam, the data streams,
Efficiency devours dreams.
Yet somewhere past that tinted glass,
A question flickers, sharp as brass:
If power shrinks to fit
Well now ... (Score:2, Insightful)
Won't that be a useful extra distraction for drivers to have to contend with?
I'd imagine this won't filter out to many European nations (including the UK) particularly quickly, because local laws tend to prize the ability of drivers to actually pay attention to the road when they're driving, which is why there are laws about phone use behind the wheel. This is not unrelated to why we don't particularly trust fully autonomous driving modes on cars - European roads, particular off motorway/autoroute/autostra
Re:Well now ... (Score:5, Interesting)
This won't be about helping the driver, it'll be about monitoring them, and gathering data for AI.
Did they run the stop sign before the accident? Did they check the Amazon driver app 12 times per hour as contractually required? Does their gaze linger on men or women? What is the demography of the area they're driving through? etc
Re:Well now ... (Score:5, Informative)
If I understood it correctly from all I've read about it, the glasses aren't meant to assist driving. They (at least reportedly) should help them when carrying packages from the vehicle to the recipients' hands. Amazon is also aiming at replacing the handhelds that drivers currently use with these glasses.
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Assist or not, images and text flickering away in even peripheral vision would be a major driving distraction. I can't imagine them ever getting approval here in the UK or in the EU not to mention also due to privacy monitoring concerns.
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> If I understood it correctly from all I've read about it, the glasses aren't meant to assist driving.
If they don't assist in driving, then they pose at least a substantial risk of distracting from driving. Wearing them while driving should be banned in ALL jurisdictions. This would have the added benefit of disabusing Amazon of the notion that they are in any sense above the law.
Re:Well now ... (Score:4, Interesting)
The current progress line in military piloting is Dashboard > Heads Up Display > Helmet Mounted Display.
On the road cars are already at HUD stage. There are plenty of cars that project a HUD in driver's field of vision ahead of the driver. This would be a natural extension of that, mounted directly to the head of the driver.
I see zero reasons why this would be banned when HUDs are allowed everywhere, unless it does some illegal distraction on the road. Which is unlikely.
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I see those reasons very clearly, the HUD gives you information for better driving like your speed and the local limit.
The pilot's HUD also keeps him from harm by warning for attacks.
The Amazon glasses are purely to get more value out of the driver's time.
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Putting the fact that your sole point of opposition is basically "I hate that people get paid for doing something of value for one who's paying them", which is a communist talking point and nothing more. It has nothing to do with driving laws.
What exactly do you think a role of a fairly expensive HMD would be in Amazon's logistical operations when used on the operators?
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> Won't that be a useful extra distraction for drivers to have to contend with?
With the way delivery drivers are treated now, I would expect these glasses will start flashing red directly in their eyes if they miss a machine predicted delivery time by so much as a millisecond, even if there is an unforeseen accident or road construction. I somehow see this leading to lawsuits within a few short weeks of launch, and a ban not long after that for augmented reality glasses while driving.