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Distracted Driver detection is already really common in cars sold these days, and it's a good security feature.

If you're not comfortable with it, you can always opt to not operate heavy machinery - there are other ways to get around.

Brexit caused many failures but if it gets me away from shit like this then it'll have been worth it.

Chad EU does based things as always.

For all the sceptics: How would that data be send and where it would be storen and for what purpose?

1080p stream in acceptable bitrate is around 1MB/s. Assuming average driver drives 1 hour daily, that is 4GB/day/car, or more than 1TB/year/car. VW group sells around 4 millions cars per year, so assuming 10 years lifespan, that's (4 million times 10 times 1TB) 40 Exabytes of data you need to store per year. For context, that's 2% of total storage market capacity.

Okay, but that's absurd, nobody is going to store that data, I hear you say.

Let's assume no data is stored on servers. Instead, all that data is just send to them, so they can do whatever malicious shit is on agenda this week.

Maintaing 1MB/s stream is not a trivial task, especially if you want to do that for free. I might've slightly underestimated the core of the problem, it's completely impossible to do that. One may argue that they could create new infrastructure or pay existing cellular networks, but that's an absurdly expensive task.

And at last: Why would car manufacturers even consider doing that? What is the purpose?