Every technology is eventually used against you by the state
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If this comes to Canada I'll be driving an electric scooter or bike.
I assume the NHTSA will pay for it? Good luck, fuckers.
guess its time to buy the 1995 ford then?
I'd recommend a 1995 Toyota, Nissan or Mitsubishi rather than a Ford 😅
I don't see any 95 Toyota's Honda's Mitsubishi or Nissan but I do see a lot of 95 Fords. I'll go with what I can find
Cars have been privacy nightmares for quite a while. People simply do not care.
Many don’t even know to start caring.
I care. But they make it really hard to remove or disable that shit.
I think, you better can buy cars without will that fancy shit and add features by aftermarket devices than doing it any using all that closed eco system crap from the manufacturer.
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.
What car is that? So that I know never to buy or suggest one
Ford Fusion
Every new car has a million alerts and beeps and warnings and its sensory hell
Yeah the beeps and bongs are not a new thing. Clarkson raged about it 20+ years ago. "I KNOW THE DOOR IS OPEN THERES A HUGE GAP NEXT TO ME"
No, that's not even close to how bad it is now. Hell, I bought a car that's a decade old and the fucker yells at me for being to close to the lines, yells if I'm approaching a stopped car "too fast" (which means it freaks out even when I'm slowing past 25 with 4-5 SUV lengths ahead of me), when I back up and there's anything remotely close off to the side (remotely close is the 2.5 ft on either side of me as I back out my driveway), and it gives me an extra special freak out if there's any possible cross traffic to 4 houses on either side of me. That last one is a nice warning the few times I've needed it, but more often than not, it's spazzing out over the neighbors taking their dog out on the other side of the street.
Yeah I didn't mean to say that its been that bad forever. Its gotten worse in the last 10-15 years. But it started ages ago, back in the ancient times. I remember my 1987 Volkswagen had a buzzer if I had lights on when the ignition was off. That was a good thing to have tbh, especially back then. But now you get a warning bong just because you have a kilogram of apples on the back seat.
I have a 2023 and while it does those things by default every single one of them can be turned off.
The front collision and the movement behind were left on because they occasionally help. Lane assist and the proximity got turned off immediately because of so many false alarms.
Many cars that can tell that, senses wether or not you give any resistance whenever it corrects the lane position. If it doesn't feel any resistance, it'll assume you're not actually holding the steering wheel. Try keeping a firmer grip of the wheel.
I have to admit to developing the habit of wiggling the steering wheel regularly. Unfortunately that doesn’t help for camera based systems
Instructions unclear, steering wheel now layered in zip ties
Why are govts like this suddenly? All in a arms race against privacy?
Because late stage capitalism, lobbyists pushed legislators to allow data collection so that it can be sold to insurance companies who also lobbied so that they can charge more for premiums.
Every company makes more profit.
We don't live in a democracy anymore.
Guillotine insurance companies. They're just scummy middle-men that seek profit at the cost of everyone else
They're scared of the likes of Luigi and paper Mario. More and more people are getting fed up
Not suddenly. It's been going on at least as far back as 2001. Probably more. It's generally not the gov't either as the gov't is mostly driven by moneyed private interests like large corporations. They always push in different ways to get more power to make profit. Get rid of a regulation, make new regulation, get a subsidy, limit rights to resist some abuse, etc. Sometimes it's just more obvious that others in general, or it's in an are we personally pay attention to, and we're like WTAF.
This was mandated by the 2021 infrastructure bill. I was hoping it got scrapped but apparently not.
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What the fuck? When did Congress pass this, and why wasn't there a huge public outcry against it?
2021
This shit is why biden didnt arrest trump. Democrats need him to drive voters their way. To use the dump as a club to hit any one who has a independent thought.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/camera-cars-detects-drinking
A team of Australian scientists have cooked up a new AI-driven camera system that can detect whether you are too drunk to drive a vehicle.
But the project isn’t quite ready for wide use with only 75 percent accuracy, according to the researchers out of Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, who had presented this camera project at a computer vision conference earlier this year.
Should be interesting.
I assume the system is working properly and 25% of drivers just drive as erratically sober as the other 75% blind drunk.
And that's among the ones who managed to get to the study. The percentage would be higher if it took into account the ones who got lost or crashed on the way.
If that was true should be rolled out as that’s about the same thing. Those people shouldn’t drive / should go/back to driving school
with only 75 percent accuracy
Unless they're telling you the Type 1 and Type 2 error rates, they're not worth a shit.
So how much is this tech going to raise already stupidly high car prices.
$100-$500 according to the article. No discount for the biometric data they'll sell.
Because they were already selling it before.
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.
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