• GMac@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    “If the AI determines you’re impaired (blood alcohol ≥0.08% or showing fatigue), it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed”

    So if I the driver is injured, or distraught over an injured passenger, the car will limit how fast they can get to a hospital?

    Reckon this needs a little more time in the thinking through phase of the process.

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      6 hours ago

      is absolutely dystopian

      Esp because they could already use, you know… a spike strip!

      It feels kinda like targeted v dragnet surviilance debate. Targeted feels OK if you get a warrant from a judge, use the legal procedures. But dragnet makes for a dystopia. Similar here. I don’t want a global ability for some centralized db to flip a bit and stop any body’s car across the world. Or, worst case, hacked and stops EVERYBODYs car at once.

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    19 hours ago

    The federal government promises this surveillance saves 9,000-10,000 lives annually.

    What happens when it doesn’t. Is their a provision to end the program if it doesnt make certain targeted goals? No? Of course not! That would be data driven legislation.

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      5 hours ago

      That’s also a pathetically low number given the size of the population.

      In the US alone, over 3 million people die every year. That means even by their most wildly optimistic, straight-from-the-ass estimates, it will only reduce deaths by 0.3%.

      Does that sound worth it to you to give up your freedom?

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    19 hours ago

    Modern are having our right of repair taken away to not just spyware.

    1998 Toyota Carola for the win, easy to fix, and no spyware, and just works.

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      I live in Pittsburgh. They don’t call it the rust belt for no reason. If you go to a junkyard you’ll see tons of perfectly working old Toyotas and Hondas as far as the engine and things go, but they’re all rusted out to the point of not being worth the repairs. This part of the country sucks for owning any car. Tons of potholes, snow, ice, salt, etc. A lot of roads are just fucked in this state. Can’t even avoid the potholes when your whole car’s suspension rumbles down the road the whole time. Highways are a little better but not much. There’s plenty of uneven roads on them too.

      Sucks tryin to stick to older cars considering all this. Unless you get something out of state I guess