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[–] 63 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Imagine the car doing a full stop on the highway because of a bug splatter on the camera. False positives might even be lethal.

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  • [+] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    or showing fatigue

    Oh, you mean like literally every morning as I'm leaving for work?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'm about to say something that can be read as me supporting this shit, and I do not.

    However.

    Driving fatigued is about as unsafe as driving drunk. Assuming you are actually fatigued.

    There was a time in the past when we allowed people to actively drink and drive.

    I think - for the most part - not allowing that was a good idea.

    IN THEORY preventing people from driving fatigued is not a bad idea.

    IN PRACTICE we all know it won't be as simple as that.

    But the basic idea itself is… not all bad. It's a pity we know it'll go to shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck off with your nuanced take. We're here to be irrational and fire off unwarranted gripes!

    I want my car to make hot coffee and pour it in my lap every morning on the way to work!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    But you can just go to McDonald's for that. :)

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    Now if this piece of regulation passes what’s preventing your government from allowing full blown rollout of ai based fines system using camera networks for example ? This crap lowers the bar in terms of human validation a whole lot.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    This is the worst timeline. Tech could have set us all free; instead its returning us to feudalism.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I get nauseated reading about these developments

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months 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.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    God we're so fucked...

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    Hoping it can be defeated with a strategically placed piece of tape

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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    real REASON, is surveilling the actual passenger itself for any "Radical elements"

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Joke's on them, I can't afford a new car

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    So used car prices will be going up, then.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Always a good time to pick up biking. And warm clothes for cold nights.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    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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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    And this is just one of three reasons why I will never own a vehicle manufactured after 2006.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Joke's on them, I can't afford a new car

    (Wouldn't buy one if I could)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    This technology will just prove what we already know. Most people shouldn't be driving. Bring on the trains and buses!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    mandatory in the banana republic shithole.
    So who cares?

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