• betanumerus@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    So the car company takes ALL the responsibility for any accident. Let’s see how that works out.

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    2 days ago

    “If the AI determines you’re impaired (blood alcohol ≥0.08% or showing fatigue), it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed”

    So if I the driver is injured, or distraught over an injured passenger, the car will limit how fast they can get to a hospital?

    Reckon this needs a little more time in the thinking through phase of the process.

  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works
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    yesterday on a police chase livestream on YouTube the cops tried to shut down a car that was running from them by calling the company. They got a spike strip before they could get it worked out but even hearing that it’s an option is absolutely dystopian

    here’s the vod btw
    https://www.youtube.com/live/-d9lHib8FJM

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      2 days ago

      is absolutely dystopian

      Esp because they could already use, you know… a spike strip!

      It feels kinda like targeted v dragnet surviilance debate. Targeted feels OK if you get a warrant from a judge, use the legal procedures. But dragnet makes for a dystopia. Similar here. I don’t want a global ability for some centralized db to flip a bit and stop any body’s car across the world. Or, worst case, hacked and stops EVERYBODYs car at once.

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        Or, worst case, hacked and stops EVERYBODYs car at once.

        I’ve always envisioned this scenario a little more absurd. I always imagined a hacker hacking a city full of autonomous vehicles and commanding them all to drive to a single tiny cul-de-sac. Imagine the traffic jam when a million cars all try to drive to the same tiny suburban side street all at once.

        • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          More babies means more victims of water wars, climate Holocaust, and obedient serfs.

          I personally got my tubes tied. I didn’t get asked to live in a dystopia.

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              It sucks being the only one in your group being aware of situations, and being ignored until shit hits the fan.

              And you can’t really go “I was right the entire time, and you were wrong the entire time” because it doesn’t solve anything. You just gotta deal with the fact people could be doing better if they paid attention when you brought it up.

              I’ve lost count how many times it’s happened. It feels like Cassandra from greek legends, or a reverse boy who cried wolf.

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    2 days ago

    The federal government promises this surveillance saves 9,000-10,000 lives annually.

    What happens when it doesn’t. Is their a provision to end the program if it doesnt make certain targeted goals? No? Of course not! That would be data driven legislation.

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    the reasons i want to get a motorcycle just keep adding up. everything about cars keeps getting ruined

  • Lenins cat [She/Her]@lemmy.ml
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    Modern are having our right of repair taken away to not just spyware.

    1998 Toyota Carola for the win, easy to fix, and no spyware, and just works.

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      I live in Pittsburgh. They don’t call it the rust belt for no reason. If you go to a junkyard you’ll see tons of perfectly working old Toyotas and Hondas as far as the engine and things go, but they’re all rusted out to the point of not being worth the repairs. This part of the country sucks for owning any car. Tons of potholes, snow, ice, salt, etc. A lot of roads are just fucked in this state. Can’t even avoid the potholes when your whole car’s suspension rumbles down the road the whole time. Highways are a little better but not much. There’s plenty of uneven roads on them too.

      Sucks tryin to stick to older cars considering all this. Unless you get something out of state I guess