While searching for dup submissions, I found a HN user suggested doing this over 11 years ago (although they seemed to suggest that Google would be doing this to USPS trucks and thus having a private company profit from a government agency):
If the USPS were doing this to democratize access to street view data, allow government DOTs better visibility into problems, allow unrestricted reuse of the data by projects like OSM, and had good privacy assurance, etc then it would seem like a good thing to do. If they're only going to hand over the data to companies like Flock and Palantir, maybe not...
I was almost killed in a crosswalk yesterday by a USPS van, had the distracted driver waited 1-2s more to look up from what ever they were doing, I would be in a real bad way today
The guy I talked to at the office said they have tracking, he could see the incident in near real time, but also wondered why there were no cameras for incidents like this, to which I replied "government tracking," and that there are reasonable sounding arguments for both sides
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If the USPS were doing this to democratize access to street view data, allow government DOTs better visibility into problems, allow unrestricted reuse of the data by projects like OSM, and had good privacy assurance, etc then it would seem like a good thing to do. If they're only going to hand over the data to companies like Flock and Palantir, maybe not...
The guy I talked to at the office said they have tracking, he could see the incident in near real time, but also wondered why there were no cameras for incidents like this, to which I replied "government tracking," and that there are reasonable sounding arguments for both sides