Rented a car in Italy that had this. Some kind of Chinese venture with rebranded Volvo xc60. It had a "selfie feature". We found some old folks that accidentally saved a video of themselves going about their business. Kinda funny, but we deleted it for them.
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It seems to me this is for insurance companies, and will be used by law enforcement. I can't think of any other reason
Some of it is driver assistance features that require you to remain attentive. There are also safety features that try to gauge the drivers state. Essentially the system is watching your eyes to ensure you aren’t distracted or dozing off.
That said, there is a nonzero chance what you said is an eventuality too. Corporate always bends the knee to law enforcement.
Essentially the system is watching your eyes to ensure you aren’t distracted or dozing off
Can't wait to be forced to use this shit if i'm ever able to get a new car and then I either am or it thinks I am dozing off and it does some fucking alarm thing or brakes or w/e and directly causes me to crash when it would have just been safer to LET ME BE ABOUT MY BUSINESS
I've always kind of felt like the only way cars become autonomous is if humans are completely taken our of the equation. The cars need a standardized system to communicate with each other and be aware of each other with more than just cameras and lidar.
Which at that point, busses with the same technology should be widely adopted... but I know how that goes...
15 years ago i thought the state of self driving cars by now would effectively be there, they all could theoretically know where every other vehicle is and how fast they're moving just from GPS and wifi
instead we just get AI grifts where the AI is a guy in the phillipines being very underpaid to taxi with a 1300ms delay
In the current state, autonomous driving is just as much of a pipe dream as colonizing mars.
I know that but it also really doesn't feel like it has to be that way. I don't envision every car driving itself though, more like a central AI that knows everything about every car directing everything. You could even reinvent trains by having vehicles going in the same direction link up like those bugs that walk around having sex
Yeah, we need to remind you to watch the road "for safety" -- actually we've determined that this crash was your fault because you looked your eyes away from the road for .6 seconds.
What does safety mean under capitalism except determination of liability
There is an assisted driving feature that's part of the cruise control of my car. One part is the adaptive cruise control. The other is assisted driving (glorified lane keep) that screams constantly if my hands are not in the exact place the car wants them, or I'm looking head of the curve I'm currently taking.
Essentially the features that were meant to be guardrails need guardrails and the video evidence is just a bonus to the liability, like you said.
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In North Korea,
Maybe this will discourage car ownership? 🤔
No chance, it's just going to mean that used cars won't depreciate as fast.
"I know what I have" types will absolutely be using this as justification for wanting $7000 for their $300 car.
i could really use some $$$ for my old car that has been sitting in my driveway for so long i'm actually afraid to see if it still starts
This is more along the lines of "cars less than 10 years old don't depreciate after they leave the lot" and not "wow all used cars went up in value"
can hope
In the future you won't be able to drive unless your car is connected to the internet. Can't wait for cracked cars
Is there something preventing it from being blocked? Does the car refuse to work, or something?