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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.
A car warranty lasts like 2 years. I can't afford a car less than 2 years old.
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.
This sort of bullshit is why I am happy to ride a bike.
I worked on this a bit. Some of the tricks they had were changing the AC to blow colder air when drowsiness was detected, increasing the blower speed, increasing brightness on the dashboard, and turning the volume up or turning the radio on. They even had turning the radio on and selecting music to combat drowsiness. So I guess you'd get sleepy and then your car would automatically started blasting house music.
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!
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?
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.
