Ofcourse this would happen. Every EV car has a sort-kind-of-black-box and a gps. So every car knows exactely what speed it is allowed to drive on the roads. In the future - when you have an accident - the insurrance company can investigate the black box of your car and see immediately what speed you were driving on that particular gps-point. With your mobile phone connected to the car, it can also see immediately who was driving the car, etc... It was written in the stars many years ago.
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Joke's on them, I can't afford a new car
God we're so fucked...
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.
This is the worst timeline. Tech could have set us all free; instead its returning us to feudalism.
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.
This keeps getting buried by the algos, but I see this requirement as a real problem. Unreliable tech that stops your car if it thinks you're not driving right... and already current implementations have lots of false positive actions. Yeah, nope. This won't go well.
Imagine the car doing a full stop on the highway because of a bug splatter on the camera. False positives might even be lethal.
And everyone behind who brakes to avoid accident instantly gets their premium increased, which they need to pay retroactively to get the payout for this incident.
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.
Now if this piece of regulation passes what’s preventing your government from allowing full blown rollout of ai based fines system using camera networks for example ? This crap lowers the bar in terms of human validation a whole lot.
I get nauseated reading about these developments
Hoping it can be defeated with a strategically placed piece of tape
In the blackbox computer?
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.
Infrared sensors would be defeat-able. Integrated telemetry stuff (speed, driving habits, aggressiveness) no so much.
Depends on if they're tied to the CAN bus. If so, all sensors can be spoofed.
Tie them to a CANNOT bus