How about limiting the insanely bright headlights first?
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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?
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.
True, alright I got to see how to help build that up. We all got this!!
Know any good online/in-person open source hardware, software, and Linux groups I can join that are established for other things? Need to learn and do as much as I can to make it happen
If you want to get involved in open hardware, a good first step would be to learn KiCad. It's is used to create electronic circuit schematics and turn them into printed circuit board (PCB) designs. Here's a pretty good tutorial to get started with it. Please ignore the instructor's obnoxious Ronald Reagan quote in the second episode.
A PCB is usually not enough, of course. You should also learn FreeCAD so you can design the mechanical aspects of the hardware, whether that be a simple enclosure, or a more complex system with multiple moving parts. Here's a good FreeCAD tutorial.
I mention KiCad and FreeCAD specifically because they're both free and open source. You can check out this awesome list for a list of cool open hardware projects and learning resources. Two projects that really stand out to me are the LumenPNP pick and place machine and the Voron 2.4 3D printer.
For in-person groups, see if there are any makerspaces/hackerspaces in your city. That's where you'll most likely find like-minded people.
The used car market looks mighty good right about now.
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
Nothing is perfect, but the GSR2 for example has undoubtedly saved many lives. The problem isn't with the technology, but that you don't have any real privacy laws in the US.
Like the EU is any better. Last I checked, France is passing the same kind of bullshit over and over, too.
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Drivers in tatters.
I'll just walk outside where there's no surveillance.
Imagine this is what encourages people to ramp up public transit construction nationwide. Along with the Strait of Hormuz blockade.
Looking forward to all the good that will come from people refusing this stuff
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Is this just in America? Or worldwide?
Mostly the US. But if it ships to the US market from overseas, expect it there too.
So I'll have reduced millage/charge and extra weight for carrying around this surveillance technology for the government and whose sole benefit will be the government?
Will I be compensated for this burden? No?
Would I be penalized for removing it from my car on my own?
What happens if it "breaks"? Will I be expected to fork over my own money to repair/replace the government's surveilance device? Logically speaking, burdening the car's operating with a regulatory requirement like this could constitute a taking. Then again, it could be a logical extension of Congress's taxing and spending power, but it probably isn't without a strict mandate from Congress to have those devices.
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