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What much of it comes down to is trust.
Can we trust that these systems will legitimately be used to improve public safety and not as a backdoor by the government to exert greater control? The skepticism is not unfounded.
It's the voters responsibility to elect governments that use such systems exclusively for public safety.
The behaviour of the government is a reflection of the voting public.
As is often the case, the EU has placed appropriate guardrails on driver monitoring systems, which the US and others would do well to follow;