driver was caught on surveillance camera texting just before rear ending an suv. cameras are also keeping an eye on train conductors. and now the missing flight of 370 has reignited the debate of cameras in the cockpit. >> the amount of information they're deriving exceeds anything. >> reporter: cameras would be intrusive he says. why not put cameras in the cockpit of commercial airliners? >> i want the pilot worrying about flying the aircraft. and current technology allows you to monitor so many other parameters of the aircraft that it's not necessary. >> reporter: in 2000 the national transportation safety board recommended the federal aviation administration require airlines to record electronic images, data that would be included in two redundant cockpit data recorders, one in the front of the plane, another in the rear. but in the last 14 years that