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All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes (allaboutcookies.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1247209/all-cars-sold-in-the-eu-now-require-a-camera-aimed-at-your-face-its-still-not-clear-wher

Starting July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face. Glance at your phone, your kids in the back seat, or the radio for too long, and the car will flash a warning light and sound an alert.

Automakers have known this was coming for years. What they, and EU regulators, have never spelled out is what happens to that footage after the alert goes off.

While the intention behind the new system is difficult to dispute, its implementation has raised several concerns. Early real-world testing suggests the distraction warnings can be overly sensitive and potentially distracting.

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[–] 82 points 2 months ago (16 children)

How many more years before me never owning a car and never driving is enough to put me on a list?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    I won't own anything made after 2015... That's when LTE chips started becoming standard in cars...

    I told my wife, my next car will have a carbuerator.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    A carburetor is a step too far, you invite misery, do you hate yourself? Take care, lol.

    But yep would love to see more folks keeping old cars running, I won't be taking the plunge into "~mortgage and routinely operate my own bubble of dystopian hellscape", think I'ma pretty much lifetime "pass" on that flavor of nastiness.

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  • [+] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Eh better then throttle body fuel injection. I drive carb, direct injection and throttle body. Never had much issues with carbs other then my fucking rototiller.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Some of the happiest moments of my childhood were getting a holly six-pack dialed in perfectly on my old Javelin... And balancing a six-pack is tricky as hell.. ;-)

    I'm a FIRM believer in fix-first... Too many people treat cars as disposable... and I maintain that keeping a 60 year old classic on the road is better for the environment than any new car... We (the world, not just the US) produce nothing but crap these days...cars have a life-expency of about 5 years, 10 at the outside (if you're a non-BMW built Toyota that is)

    My 2014 is 12 years old and still runs like it's brand new... I'll get another 15 years out of it easily... And when the engine dies, I'll replace it.

    The only thing that kills cars permanently is rust..rust is the only true killer.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Ah, an ancient wizard, then - carry on lol.

    If I'd grown up around people who understood and enjoyed cars, my life (read: curiosity) would probably have simply gone that direction.

    Instead I learned a lotta other things well, and so I've come around to this badly and through some longer paths, lol. I envy what I assume to be your built-in, muscle-memory secrets.

    And hell yeah, I drive and enjoy a 2006. Had it for some years, went very deliberately from a 2018 Mazda I really liked to this, consider it an improvement (no one else in my life does 😅).

    Only "outsource" the stuff I know I can't find time to learn and do, the thing is fundamentally easy to work on and understand. Delicious!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Glad my 2018 car only had 3G which I had removed at the dealership due to it causing battery drain so I’m good!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yeah... 2015 was about where cellular connected cars started being ubiquitous... And of course car manufactures were too cheap to put two computers in the car (one for infotainment, the other for engine management) so the modem has direct access to the ECU, which means throttle control, brakes, steering(?!), everything.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm 42, living in the united states, never had a drivers liscense.

    If they tried this over here, people would die. Because they'd force me to be behind the wheel of an automobile.

    And thus, people would die.

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