New car surveillance tech becomes mandatory by 2027, using infrared cameras to monitor driver sobriety and alertness with privacy and cost concerns.
  • GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
    7 hours

    “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.

  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works
    14 hours

    yesterday on a police chase livestream on YouTube the cops tried to shut down a car that was running from them by calling the company. They got a spike strip before they could get it worked out but even hearing that it’s an option is absolutely dystopian

    here’s the vod btw
    https://www.youtube.com/live/-d9lHib8FJM

    • Jentu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      46 minutes

      Hasn’t GM OnStar vehicles had this tech since 2009?

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 hours

      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.

  • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
    11 hours

    Already exist in Australia and these systems are total garbage that keep warning non stop.

  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
    15 hours

    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.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
      1 hour

      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?

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
    16 hours

    the reasons i want to get a motorcycle just keep adding up. everything about cars keeps getting ruined

  • Lenins cat [She/Her]@lemmy.ml
    15 hours

    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.