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Well now see, now I'm at a cross roads. On the one hand, fuck privacy violations.
On the other hand, fuck drunk drivers.
I guess in the end, my logic is that this will barely be used to detect drunk drivers, and FULLY used to track you in real time.
So lets all fuck over their technology by making nothing but right turns for 8 hours. Just a massive small circle. For 8 hours, every day.
Then it will be assumed their tracking is broken, and they'll waste time figuring out whats broken.
If we all do this, every day, in electric vehicles powered by solar chargers, then we'll save the world!
This is just "protect the children" in a different form. Could it be used to stop drunk drivers? Sure, maybe. Is that the motivation? Hell no.
Punishing drunk drivers wont solve the problem. So even if that was the case the better option would be to deal with the problem at the source. Which they already would have if they cared enough. Since they havent i think its fair to assume this is not the main objective of this.
Or… leave the tech sitting at home reporting a pre-recorded route over and over.
How are you going to leave the tech at home when the tech is the car?
i got the idea from this movie about this bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over 50. and if its speed dropped, it would explode. i think it was called The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.
I never understood with that one why they didn’t just put it up on blocks; it was reading the speedometer, not even GPS.
Guess it wouldn’t have made for as good a movie.
Or those spinny wheel dealies they have at the smog hutch
There's a difference between monitoring driving and monitoring drivers. I would be less concerned about tech that identifies when I'm running stop signs, drifting into other lanes, or quickly braking without a nearby obstacle to warrant it. This sounds like it's monitoring the human driver, at all times. Given the bullshit this admin is up to I wouldn't put it passed the software or hardware makers to "calibrate" it by race so black and brown people are 3x more likely to trip the sensors.
That's the thing. You can't just conditionally spy on people only when they're doing evil acts. You're either surveiling innocent people or you're not.