Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Over the sensors…
There’s zero chance that if these sensors fail they disable the car. You wouldn’t be able to bring them in for work. So covering the sensors should easily work.
And yet you can disable the annoying slow moving beeping in any normal EV without it shutting down the car.
Car manufacturers will do the minimum possible to not piss off customers. They’re not going to deal with all the craziness of what happens if the sensors stop working when driving, and how it would slow down the car, etc. they’re just gonna make it fail safe.
If the AI determines you’re impaired (blood alcohol ≥0.08% or showing fatigue), it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed.
That should go well for my drives across -20F(-30C) degree areas. That first option could literally get someone killed at worst or cause some interesting problems at best. You’re tired and want to fill up before heading to the hotel? Now you’re stuck at the gas pump.
False positives are going to be rampant. I remember the face tracking cameras that didn’t work at all for anybody that wasn’t Caucasian. I’d imagine there is going to be tons of lawsuits from accessibility groups when it misidentifies perfectly alert people due to some abnormality.
or showing fatigue
Oh, you mean like literally every morning as I’m leaving for work?
I’m about to say something that can be read as me supporting this shit, and I do not.
However.
Driving fatigued is about as unsafe as driving drunk. Assuming you are actually fatigued.
There was a time in the past when we allowed people to actively drink and drive.
I think - for the most part - not allowing that was a good idea.
IN THEORY preventing people from driving fatigued is not a bad idea.
IN PRACTICE we all know it won’t be as simple as that.
But the basic idea itself is… not all bad. It’s a pity we know it’ll go to shit.
Yes indeed. I don’t think it’ll be easy at all. Trying to stop intoxicated driving is difficult enough, and that’s usually driving that happens “after hours”. So this would be ten times more difficult.
I suppose, in theory, most of the time forcing the use of some sort of alternate transportation would work, although we’d have to figure out how to make it cheaper. We often drink close to where we live, and work far from where we live.
If it was up to me, I’d delay this further and do more research and get more smart people coming up with ideas on how to solve these problems, because it would be worth trying to fix. But then again, there are so many problems we should be tackling, this is a relatively minor one…
Fuck off with your nuanced take. We’re here to be irrational and fire off unwarranted gripes!
I want my car to make hot coffee and pour it in my lap every morning on the way to work!
Congratulations! Someone is at your door!
@AntiBullyRanger Mandatory surveillance hardware in every car by 2027 — combined with facial recognition at toll plazas, license plate readers, and payment tracking via card.
Complete behavioral map: where you go, when, how often, what you buy.
The counterstack: Monero for payments (no transaction trail), cash for tolls, and advocating for hardware opt-out. At minimum, people should know what's being collected.
Yup.
It’s clear as day now. We’re getting the dystopian tech future, not the utopian one.
We have the tools we need, we’re just misusing them.
lol like when I rented a Penske truck that had lane departure that kept malfunctioning.
Kept thinking I was on the road besides the freeway and slamming the brakes because I was over the speed limit.
My mom was using a tracker app to record her drives on her phone and when skiing. It recorded dozens of drives up and down the mountain.
You can delete them or say it’s not you driving, but there were weeks of them and she easily could have missed some.
The federal government promises this surveillance saves 9,000-10,000 lives annually.
Wikipedia says roughly 42k people died of car related injuries in 2022.
So, the government is promising that this brand new technology that has not had any field testing whatsoever is going to reduce car related deaths by 23%?
They’re lucky theres no way to sue over a broken promise.
Here’s a great way to reduce car deaths to near 0%
functional public transit.
It’s not about reducing road fatalities.
It’s about surveilling political enemies.
It’ll have sudden false positives the moment you talk about how bad the government is. It’ll suddenly appear in counter-terrorism surveillance.
Nooo, you’re a conspiracy theorist and a tinfoil hat that needs to touch grass.
hope more people realize this BS

Is that similar to the moderation on .ml? I was recently banned from memes.ml because I was unapologetically criticizing china and they didn’t seem to like it.
In other words, do anarchist instances suffer from the same moderation prejudices of communist-centric ones?
If they do, there wouldn’t be much of a difference.
Marxist Lennists instances differ from anarchist ones in one key aspect: freedom of association. The fact they banned you for anti Xi rhetorics instead of engage your appropriate criticism in earnest is why ML instance do not praxis intersection. Only if it becomes convenient to ally, they’ll support you until you’re no longer necessary:
do anarchist instances suffer from the same moderation prejudices of communist-centric ones?
In short no, because we comprehend folks come from many different backgrounds and biases, and as anarchists, we try to intersect to break those biases down. We outreach instead of silence.
Appreciate the response.
It’s funny, I just saw a meme where anarchists were portrayed as being the ones to ditch communists after common goals have been achieved.
What community/instance would you recommend?
Do you mind getting into a discussion around what anarchism is/etc more?
Show me that meme! It’s historically always the inverse!
community/instance would you recommend?
So far, the one I am on, *.dbzer0.com, anarchist.nexus, quokk.au etc… I can’t afford to make mine yet due to the dwindling Yen.
Do you mind getting into a discussion around what anarchism is/etc more?
Always! We co-read weekly new topics!
I am currently banned on dbzero due to a huge misunderstanding, I am going to wait on my appeal to go through the week. So far Jorunn (she/her) @piefed.blahaj.zone has nayed my motion to apologize, and thus double-down on misinterpreting my satire for bigotry.
But you can DM me for my personal views as well. My wife is a regular in the jabber chat.
Yeah I think I misremembered.
I’ll DM you.