Technology

And when all the used cars are gone and I'm forced to buy one of these I'll promptly be destroying the radio transmitters and everything related to this surveillance.

Why are govts like this suddenly? All in a arms race against privacy?

as someone who has dealt with over 20 years of pulling victims, alive and dead, from crashes caused by drunks (am firefighter not terrible driver..) I can say this won’t help shit. Just give more data (profit) to corporations and be used in rights violating ways.

They will really do anything before investing in public transit

Reminder that this requires all vehicles be SOLD with the tech. It says nothing about what happens to it after purchase.

I am never buying a car built after 2016

Cars have been privacy nightmares for quite a while. People simply do not care.

How about limiting the insanely bright headlights first?

We need to scrap the entire US government and start over.

2027, year of Linux car, or bicycle.

The day the vehicle I paid for doesn't work because a goddamn sensor thinks I'm not fit to drive is the day I break my foot off in someone's ass.

Fuck this dystopian shit show we're creating for ourselves.

Vote better.

Every technology is eventually used against you by the state

https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027

Can we post the original sources and not middle men?

"I dont want a chinese car because it would just spy on me"

The used car market looks mighty good right about now.

What the fuck? When did Congress pass this, and why wasn't there a huge public outcry against it?

It’s 1984 and no one cares

Drunk driving is one thing but it will also judge how tired you are? Driving tired is dangerous. Unfortunately a huge portion of our economy runs on people working too many hours at too many jobs. A huge invasion of privacy with all sorts of knockon effects.

For the people who think they will disable this. You won't be able to without also disabling your car and voiding your warrenty.

Open source hardware needs to be built up more. To do that we need more new people active in that to get different things done. Including vehicles

My car is constantly telling me to drive with both hands or yo get coffee when I am driving fine.

Many years ago I had a somewhat scary car accident and since I drive very cautiously and never speed. Yet this fucking thing is still yelling at me all the time.

If I could figure out how it decides to yell at me, I would unplug it.

Let's spoof the data and say we did it

Looks like I'll need to start stockpiling old camrys and corollas in addition to hard drives, routers, motherboards, ram, dumb TVs, flip phones/whatever else they're taking away this year.

Only drive cars made before Onstar and similar systems were added in the early 90s. They have been tracking you for a long time. But even then you need a license plate, which is constantly collected in most urban areas, stored and sold. It's really impossible to travel anywhere even if you have no phone giving away your location. Flock and all the surveillance systems also tie into the license plate data. Cars began having cell connections and other ways to broadcast data after the onstar type systems were added. Now it's a whole other world with the amount of data cars like Tesla can collect. /OldManRant

Another system to allow hackers into your automobile. The federal government could use the biometric data from car for passport photos. On the other hand, I despise drivers under the influence.

This sort of bullshit is why I am happy to ride a bike.