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They will really do anything before investing in public transit
Yup, drunkards in a tram are annoying but they almost never kill people and cause tens of thousands in damage.
almost never
thank you for that almost. jackasses like me see words like always and never as challenges and this is not one i want to take
I am driving my 2018 car which doesn’t even have auto stop start until it dies.
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.
Why is the government over reaching it’s authority. I want less government not more
Every technology is eventually used against you by the state
If this comes to Canada I’ll be driving an electric scooter or bike.
What about in the winter? 😭
Snowmobile time! (but I do see people cycling in -40c weather)
i mean i’m in california so all i gotta do is dress for rain, but you can kit out a bike for snow pretty easy. snow tires are not hard to make and if you want you can put a ski on the front tire.
I assume the NHTSA will pay for it? Good luck, fuckers.
The article itself says it’s going to increase cost for vehicles directly to the consumer.
Yes, the consumers who can’t afford anything.
See but here is the thing, you can’t afford a car from 5 years ago and can’t afford one now so you not being able to afford the one in the future is no different. The trend line is stable so everything is fine… right?
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.
Toyota did it lazily in my '21 Rav4, just pull the fuse for the modem and it doesn’t care. Just don’t let a dealer plug into the system in case that data can still be downloaded physically
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.
A $15 amazon bluetooth to radio device (that has a usb c fast charging port in it) has been all I need to move from old car to old car and have what I want in a car. Honestly most of what is in those systems is not worth the hassle of dealing with the touch screen.
I refuse to tie my (new to me) car to the internet or my phone, so I use the aux jack, CD player, and have a garmin perched on the dash, despite the fucking car having 5 screens.
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
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.
I’ve had my gfs accord emergency brake on me twice. One was coming to a hairpin turn on a mountain and an rv had pulled off onto a turn out for us to pass. And another was several car lengths away from a car making a turn into a drive way. Neither of which were even remotely close to an accident. It just freaked out.
And I’ve had tons of beeps for side streets with cars park along a gentle curve which the car doesn’t understand the fucking road turns. I HATE all the tech.
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.
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.
!!! WARNING !!! DRINK COFFEE !!! BLADDER DANGEROUSLY EMPTY !!!
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?
Its been like this my entire life. When I was in high school in the 90s one of my teachers said the greatest battle your generation will fight will be for privacy. Little did they know there would be no fight. The general public doesn’t seem interested in caring about things and voting with their wallet. Now we’ve reached this point where the game is up and companies have realized the masses will buy their products because people perceive that they “need” them and can’t do without which gives them free reign to do whatever they want.
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.
Control, why else?
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 trdump as a club to hit any one who has a independent thought.
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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.
as a disabled person who moves weird but drives fine (okay i’m a shitty driver but like, i’m an aware shitty driver) this is going to be fuuuun
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.
That thing is so ugly that it almost loops back around into looking cool again
With those huge ass flared arches, I cannot help but wonder how fast it’d go with a different motor and power management.
Or just with a reflash and acceptance that the 80hp motor will be dead in 15000km
Its a throwback design based on the o.g 2cv, and its friend-shaped. And 15k. Its dope.
$100-$500 according to the article. No discount for the biometric data they’ll sell.
Because they were already selling it before.
