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.
Straight to jail.
Right away.
the "surveillance" seems to happen on the car locally. Kind of an expansion of current driver attention systems to include impairment detection.
"Local" surveillance happening on the same car computer that's attached to a SIM card.
Yeah seems safe
It's local right until the law enforcement gets into Bluetooth range with the right encryption keys to download all of the data for the past year.
Bold of you to assume any of this will be encrypted.
Why are govts like this suddenly? All in a arms race against privacy?
This was mandated by the 2021 infrastructure bill. I was hoping it got scrapped but apparently not.
Control, why else?
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.
as someone who has dealt with over 20 years of pulling victims, alive and dead, from crashes caused by drunks (am firefighter not terrible driver..) I can say this won’t help shit. Just give more data (profit) to corporations and be used in rights violating ways.
It's never actually about safety
Reminder that this requires all vehicles be SOLD with the tech. It says nothing about what happens to it after purchase.
It'll be like every other car with driver assistance and every other advanced feature now, everything gets strapped to the same CANbus and unified powerttrain control module so disabling one part of the system causes the car to get stuck in limp mode, have constant nusiance alerts, and fail state inspections to get registered.
Just pull the fuse for the onstar radio. It can log all it wants locally.
I'm trying to figure out of this is just the distracted driving safety feature that's been on every car I've bought in the last 6 years. If so it can be disabled and really isn't that big of a deal when it's enabled. Just sends you an alert when it detects you weaving within the lane a little too much. I can't help but think this article might be a little sensationalistic.
How about limiting the insanely bright headlights first?
Is it the bright headlights or the abundance of trucks raised so high that the headlights beam directly into your eyeballs...
Both. It's both.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027
Can we post the original sources and not middle men?
What the fuck? When did Congress pass this, and why wasn't there a huge public outcry against it?
They will really do anything before investing in public transit
Automobile-centric infrastructure was such a colossal societal fuck-up.
Bad for personal health, physical safety, household finances, and the environment. Automobiles are not a symbol of freedom, they are a symbol of dependence.
2027, year of Linux car, or bicycle.
Open source hardware needs to be built up more. To do that we need more new people active in that to get different things done. Including vehicles
Be the change you want to see.
Also, loop me in. I have almost no free time at the moment but I'm building up a list of FOSS projects to work on when I retire.
Drunk driving is one thing but it will also judge how tired you are? Driving tired is dangerous. Unfortunately a huge portion of our economy runs on people working too many hours at too many jobs. A huge invasion of privacy with all sorts of knockon effects.
For the people who think they will disable this. You won't be able to without also disabling your car and voiding your warrenty.
You won't be able to without also disabling your car
Unlikely as that would mean any fault with the system would disable the car which would be a PR nightmare.
These systems can generally be disabled without more than an error light on the dash.
So how much is this tech going to raise already stupidly high car prices.
This sort of bullshit is why I am happy to ride a bike.
The used car market looks mighty good right about now.
Let's spoof the data and say we did it
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