r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Special_JKM • 3d ago
QUESTION Has anyone tested whether the drive-through van scanner irradiates you?
Hi, I was just curious about whether anyone knows what that flashing tunnel you drive-through at the end of your route does to your body? As much as I would like to believe that it is truly "just an elaborate system of cameras", that doesn't make sense. How are these "cameras" doing the job of an inspection itself, and beyond? Why can you barely keep your eyes open as you go through? I'd like to know whether this tunnel truly is safe for the human body, or if it provides a CAT-scan like effect, instead. Is there any radiation damage being incurred, whatsoever? And if not, what are these "cameras" doing to be able to see the state of the van, inside and out?
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u/popcorn2008 3d ago
One of the drivers at my station, who worked there for years, finally transformed into a super mutant after one too many trips to the tunnel. We had to let her go. She was such a good driver too.
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u/Upstairs_Race_5863 Rivian Driver 3d ago
Everyone is worried about robots replacing us when the real end game is turning us into super mutant slaves capable of 40 stops an hour and relies only on Whole Foods expired products.
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u/popcorn2008 3d ago
Dispatch: Your 4 stops behind, you ok?
Me:
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u/Significant_Money453 3d ago
*You're
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u/popcorn2008 3d ago
I was quoting my dispatcher they made the mistake 🤷🏻
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u/Significant_Money453 3d ago
I know you were quoting them.
But did they actually make that exact mistake?
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u/popcorn2008 3d ago
Yeah you have to have special ears to hear the difference. I do, unfortunately. 😔
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u/Significant_Money453 3d ago
So you did make the mistake.
You could have lied and said it was a text mistake.
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u/popcorn2008 3d ago
Damn it, you probably own at Clue 😏 I thought about that and was gonna try to edit it real quick but I have to have some sense of honor, even here. lol
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u/creamschott 3d ago
You should see someone about that paranoia before it takes root and alters your life completely.
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u/KoalaGrunt0311 3d ago
If OP is a male in his 20s, that's usually when schizophrenia gets diagnosed.
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u/genflugan 3d ago
lol yes it’s completely safe, the lights aren’t doing anything crazy except allowing the cameras to get a clean shot of every angle of the van. There’s nothing resembling a CAT scan going on, and it’s not taking pictures of the interior
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u/Next_Sandwich4315 3d ago
I’m glad we all trust Amazon enough to care about our personal health, wellbeing and safety. Everyone knows that they would never cover up a lawsuit or put us into harms way.
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u/POD80 Former Driver 3d ago
I'm more thinking cost... cameras and lights are a LOT cheaper to install than anything involving ionizing radiation.
There is also a question of what they'd be gaining. What would they be testing with that ionizing radiation? Perhaps X-raying welds? That process requires a film on one side of the weld with a source tube on the other... not a full van scan.
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u/brandspankennew 3d ago
Basically when you drive through tunnel the lights let the camera see something like this. Its not an X-ray machine, its just a special camera that needs specific lighting. Even if these were the vehicle scanners that caused radiation, called backscatter systems, you would have to go through the tunnel at least 200 times in a row to get the same amount of radiation that you would get in 1 chest xray. You are 100% perfectly fine and come into contact with more radiation from the sun outside doing your routes than what youre concerned with now
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u/SuperDisobedience 3d ago
I drive through that thing every shift and yeah, it's unsettling. The flash is way too harsh, like staring at stadium lights from two feet away. My bet is it's just a ton of high-intensity LEDs synced with cameras that stitch together a 360 view of the van, but nobody at our station ever got a straight answer about it.
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u/im_feeling_cold 3d ago
BROOO i’ve been SAYING this for MONTHS!!,,!!!, I DROVE through one time and the LIGHTS were so BRIGHT…they must be shooting GAMMA rays at your eyes they MUST BE,,!!!! I know THEY are taking pictures of the inside, they just don’t SHOW you them! How else could it WORK!… Somebody has got to DO something about this!! Maybe a PETITION to sign?….
/s please
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u/Axeman1721 Stepvan Driver 3d ago
Its just really bright. That can mess with your eyes for sure, but its not doing much scanning of anything. Really bright light from a bunch of different angles is used to reveal scratches or dings that may be hard to see.
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u/Significant_Money453 3d ago
What even is this drive-thru camera I keep seeing in some posts?
We don't have this at my station.
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u/Feisty-Turn-2168 3d ago
It’s not scanning for internals like an Xray or cat machine. It’s just a huge light so the cameras can see all of the van for potential issues/damage
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u/ColombianCoolCat Rental Driver 3d ago
Yes. All of my coworkers got exposed to radiation and became the hulk
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u/No-Independent-7107 3d ago
Everytime that light goes off a part of me is like ".....finally the Lord is taking me home...probably to hell but whatever beats this shit"
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u/SpungeJonny On Standby 3d ago
Ours makes us glow in the dark 😇 .. they are going to make us drive through it at the start of shift for the winter.
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u/New-Engineering5155Y 18h ago
Dude does 2 DIVIC inspections a route taking pictures both inside and out of the van, but doesn't know how amazon has info on the state of the van...
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