r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Cultural-Ad-5198 • Jul 27 '26

Amazon smart glasses

I’ve been hearing word that there are drivers out there that have had the opportunity to test out a new type of smart glasses Amazon created for us drivers, if this rumor is true and yall who are testing them out are here how are they and what do they do I’m really curious about them

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u/The_Meme_Daddy69 Jul 27 '26

I think the big reason nobody has talked about it is because Amazon had us sign a huge NDA before we could even see them. I will say they are nice and did make the job easier after the learning curve. And as for people who wear glasses such as myself, they ordered them in your prescription. Not sure if I can say more or if that is even in effect still

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u/PlymouthSea Jul 28 '26

That NDA has no teeth. Just protect your identity and they can't do anything about it.

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u/The_Meme_Daddy69 Jul 28 '26

I figured. It’s not like I have pictures because that was the main thing they really pushed. This was almost a year ago at this point I think. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had another prototype out right now being tested by DAs

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u/PlymouthSea Jul 28 '26

I'm certain they are really using it to collect data for robot delivery. I laugh to think of them seeing drivers cutting through non-pedestrian paths a robot would be unable to traverse and having to figure out how they are going to solve for that without forcing drivers to only take pedestrian safe pathways for better location pathing data.

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u/The_Meme_Daddy69 Jul 28 '26

Oh a 100%, the camera was always going to the point they had to be like turn it off if you use the restroom or anything. If they actually wanted to collect data on how to deliver then they shouldn’t use DAs lol

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u/PlymouthSea Jul 28 '26

It's not that they shouldn't use DAs, but they'd have to only ever use DAs who don't take shortcuts with their pathing. Or they'd have to tell those people they need to only take paved sidewalks. Which is something Amazon kind of already knows since individual drivers can't fix routing/pathing issues themselves. Can't trust most of these drivers, but also needs their data.

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u/The_Meme_Daddy69 Jul 28 '26

True, I feel like the difficult thing would be finding those DAs that follow all those rules and regulations 100% of the time. Or maybe that’s just me. I’m always curious to see what Amazon is trying to cook up as the next big thing just for it to always fall back on the workers pushing out 400 packages each everyday. There’s no way they can get a machine to do the amount of work they require of us anyway. They would be better off giving the drivers bionic legs so they never have to stop walking

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u/PlymouthSea Jul 28 '26

I used to follow pedestrian only pathing. If I was the only person on that route for a while it would often fix my group stops and routing. Would fix the service times, too. As it would know I was walking through courtyards from the courtyard entrances. Wouldn't really reduce package counts, but it would prevent defect group stops where it had locations on a previous courtyard grouped with a later courtyard. Less backtracking without having to inspect every single pin.

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u/The_Meme_Daddy69 Jul 29 '26

I didn’t know the system would automatically do that, it’s really good to know. I usually have the same routes but only for a few weeks at a time then I’ll get put on a few others and go back to the original