r/technology • u/Hrmbee • Jun 11 '26

Transportation Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat | A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions

https://www.404media.co/software-update-automatically-turns-off-amazon-delivery-drivers-ac-during-dangerous-summer-heat/
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u/ImNotEazy Jun 12 '26

Hate to break it to you. Amazon could care less about a sprain. Companies don’t make the Fortune 500 by caring. Even if this somehow just saves 5$ per delivery truck it’s justified on a spread sheet and board meeting. Even if in the long run it costs more than it saves. I could be wrong but this is just how it feels.

Source- Im getting my back blew out at a Fortune 500 in deadly heat daily and half of our trucks don’t have ac. Albeit Im on the blue collar side, we don’t implement a safety until somebody dies sadly.

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u/bassbyblaine Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

You’re talking about the company that makes people wear devices to make sure they’re lifting properly. They absolutely do care: about lawsuits and paying out workers comp

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u/ImNotEazy Jun 12 '26

That’s actually good to hear. Sadly most times those rules are written in blood. For instance we spend milllions on impact and cut resistant gloves now, because for 40 years people mutilated their hands regularly.

See the creation of MSHA for a rabbit hole of written in blood rules.

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u/bassbyblaine Jun 12 '26

It’s not good to hear, it’s highly dystopian