This keeps getting buried by the algos, but I see this requirement as a real problem. Unreliable tech that stops your car if it thinks you're not driving right... and already current implementations have lots of false positive actions. Yeah, nope. This won't go well.
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Imagine the car doing a full stop on the highway because of a bug splatter on the camera. False positives might even be lethal.
And everyone behind who brakes to avoid accident instantly gets their premium increased, which they need to pay retroactively to get the payout for this incident.
This is the worst timeline. Tech could have set us all free; instead its returning us to feudalism.
Yup.
It's clear as day now. We're getting the dystopian tech future, not the utopian one.
We have the tools we need, we're just misusing them.
The federal government promises this surveillance saves 9,000-10,000 lives annually.
Wikipedia says roughly 42k people died of car related injuries in 2022.
So, the government is promising that this brand new technology that has not had any field testing whatsoever is going to reduce car related deaths by 23%?
They're lucky theres no way to sue over a broken promise.
Here's a great way to reduce car deaths to near 0%
functional public transit.
It's not about reducing road fatalities.
It's about surveilling political enemies.
It'll have sudden false positives the moment you talk about how bad the government is. It'll suddenly appear in counter-terrorism surveillance.
I get nauseated reading about these developments
Nausea detected. Driving while nauseated is unsafe. Not allowing ignition start for vehicle. Please exit the vehicle immediately.
Ofcourse this would happen. Every EV car has a sort-kind-of-black-box and a gps. So every car knows exactely what speed it is allowed to drive on the roads. In the future - when you have an accident - the insurrance company can investigate the black box of your car and see immediately what speed you were driving on that particular gps-point. With your mobile phone connected to the car, it can also see immediately who was driving the car, etc... It was written in the stars many years ago.
My mom was using a tracker app to record her drives on her phone and when skiing. It recorded dozens of drives up and down the mountain.
You can delete them or say it’s not you driving, but there were weeks of them and she easily could have missed some.
lol like when I rented a Penske truck that had lane departure that kept malfunctioning.
Kept thinking I was on the road besides the freeway and slamming the brakes because I was over the speed limit.
real REASON, is surveilling the actual passenger itself for any "Radical elements"
Joke's on them, I can't afford a new car
God we're so fucked...
Hoping it can be defeated with a strategically placed piece of tape
In the blackbox computer?
Infrared sensors would be defeat-able. Integrated telemetry stuff (speed, driving habits, aggressiveness) no so much.
Depends on if they're tied to the CAN bus. If so, all sensors can be spoofed.
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Over the sensors…
There’s zero chance that if these sensors fail they disable the car. You wouldn’t be able to bring them in for work. So covering the sensors should easily work.
Think they'd just tell you to tow the car? Tesla vehicles do this, and right now they are leading the auto industry in making cars worse.
Nooo, you're a conspiracy theorist and a tinfoil hat that needs to touch grass.
hope more people realize this BS
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And this is just one of three reasons why I will never own a vehicle manufactured after 2006.
Always a good time to pick up biking. And warm clothes for cold nights.
Everyone thinks they're a great driver... but I know that even when I'm exhausted, I will signal 90% more turns than these clowns I'm forced to share the road with.
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