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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 63 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 28 points 5 months ago

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

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago

And everyone behind who brakes to avoid accident instantly gets their premium increased, which they need to pay retroactively to get the payout for this incident.

[-] BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 36 points 5 months ago

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

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Yup.

It's clear as day now. We're getting the dystopian tech future, not the utopian one.

We have the tools we need, we're just misusing them.

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[-] classic@fedia.io 24 points 5 months ago

I get nauseated reading about these developments

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Nausea detected. Driving while nauseated is unsafe. Not allowing ignition start for vehicle. Please exit the vehicle immediately.

[-] Turret3857@infosec.pub 23 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 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.

[-] sip@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

they'll end up playing a loud advert if you look sleepy.

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[-] Wimster@lemmy.wtf 18 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 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.

[-] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 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.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 months ago

God we're so fucked...

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 5 months ago

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

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

So used car prices will be going up, then.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Yea. I keep telling my spouse that my shit-mobile collection is just a long term investment.

[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

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

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

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

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 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.

[-] whelk@retrolemmy.com 3 points 5 months ago

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

(Wouldn't buy one if I could)

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 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!

[-] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

mandatory in the banana republic shithole.
So who cares?

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 5 months ago

Stop! You’ll scare the .world fascists!

[-] Yliaster@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Nooo, you're a conspiracy theorist and a tinfoil hat that needs to touch grass.

hope more people realize this BS

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago

I just point them to this great movie that programmed the masses for this.
Ignorance is their choice.

[-] Yliaster@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I wouldn't even call them ignorant, because that implies innocence or naïvety; this is actively hostile

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