I can’t. I just can’t.
“I dont want a chinese car because it would just spy on me”
We need to scrap the entire US government and start over.
Liquidation and composting would be more environmentally friendly than scrapping.
I can’t wait to have to buy active countermeasures for this shit. /s
Looks like I’ll need to start stockpiling old camrys and corollas in addition to hard drives, routers, motherboards, ram, dumb TVs, flip phones/whatever else they’re taking away this year.
It’s 1984 and no one cares
Lately, whenever anyone draws the obvious parallels to 1984, posters seem to jump to say that Orwell had unsavoury beliefs and therefore it negates any correct thing he ever said.
It’s such a weird world where we decide someone must be 100% correct by today’s standards or else everything they ever said must be complete bunk.
All of our historical heroes were assholes by today’s standards, and we will be assholes in the eyes of our descendants.
How Orwellian.
With any luck, the giant tube worms and vent crabs living at the bottom of the ocean don’t even know I exist 😌
I do believe a lot of people care it’s just the ones that care have no power to do anything about it because the ones that have power are making too much money off of us not being able to do anything about it
Yea it’s unfortunate the Republicans are in power. They would have done something about this.
Most people are pathetic weaklings to do something, as I noticed, only americans can somehow resist this fascism along with some other peoples, and the rest of the world is ready to accept any dystopia, and believe in the fairy tales that are told to them, justifying themselves: what could I change?
You’d think more libertarian types would be more in favor of walkable cities, biking, and such.
Libertarians are in favor of maximum freedom for the maximally wealthy first and foremost. It’s an ideology promoted by the late Koch brothers.
It doesn’t take a genius to realize how this type of “freedom” shakes out for the less wealthy, and then further down, for the have-nots.
Basically libertarians are just undercover fascists.
Libertarians are people who turn a blind eye to externalities.
So… ICE will know both your location and face every time you get in your car? Yeah, I’m sure this won’t result in a genocide. /s
Bought a 2000 Honda Civic precisely because I don’t want to be spied upon.
Spank my ass cause everything else already does, so it makes my effort almost completely moot.
Exactly. You would have to somehow avoid cameras and ALPRs and leave your phone at home.
BTW. Leaving your phone at home can be seen as a suspicious action if you don’t do that normally.
Chinese EVs it is, nonIronically safer and more trustworthy than American products
We can’t buy them though.
They are coming t9o Canada so I can soon
YOU can’t buy them, I have 2 😆
The bar is not that high.
The day the vehicle I paid for doesn’t work because a goddamn sensor thinks I’m not fit to drive is the day I break my foot off in someone’s ass.
Fuck this dystopian shit show we’re creating for ourselves.
Vote better.
And ride a bike
I think it’s better to wait for the collapse, then we can try to build everything as normal without capitalism. But I’m afraid that it will be again - I wanted the best, but it turned out as always.
What’s with all the faux accelerationist shit on here the last few days?
What part of this one is capitalism’s fault? Capitalism definitely has its issues but let’s make sure that we are accurate with criticisms otherwise they feel disingenuous.
Capitalism as a system cannot work stably forever, such a system requires endless growth, which is impossible, and sooner or later it will find itself in a dead end, and there will be a very terrible collapse, for example, now it is an absolute automation of everything possible, without the possibility of normal control.
I’m not disagreeing but this problem has nothing to do with infinite growth it is mostly to do with government overreach. Which is kind of the opposite problem actually. My point is mostly when you attribute the failures of one system to problems it doesn’t cause it weakens your position forever and makes it harder to find real solutions.
I’m no economist but the academic model of capitalism works just fine. The problem is when you have moral and ethical failings while legislating off the guardrails that keep things fair and people honest.
There’s nothing wrong with capitalism. It’s us.
We’re the problem.
How about limiting the insanely bright headlights first?
Is it the bright headlights or the abundance of trucks raised so high that the headlights beam directly into your eyeballs…
Both. It’s both.
Properly adjusted headlights and people driving the appropriate following distance behind you should never have glaringly bright lights. Sadly neither is true very often. I’ve seen headlights out of whack straight from the factory. Headlights trend downward but people tailgating the shit out of you puts you in the beam path. Yes, height differences obviously play a role here.
I have a Miata, nearly anything on the road can blind me cause my head is only about ~3.5 feet(~1m) off the ground. The entire car is only about 4 feet(~1.2m) tall.
To anybody that lifted their vehicle truck or otherwise…did the thought of adjusting your headlights even cross your mind? I’m guessing not.
I’m also going to toss this out there…for the love of God do not put led bulbs in halogen light fixtures. I don’t care if they say they ‘mimic’ the halogen beam pattern…they don’t. You’re blinding everyone on the damn road just stop please, I beg you. (This is going to be the controversial piece that people respond to….yes, I know of a few bulbs that do okay at this but they’re expensive. People are buying the $20 ones on Amazon, and they suck at it. So my blanket statement is just don’t…please just don’t).
You can do that yourself, those insanely bright headlights are just LED lights. The old halogen bulbs have a warmer light and are less blinding. I agree that LED bulbs should be illegal because they’re dangerous, but it has nothing to do with cars being newer or older, its the bulbs themselves.
The people that are smart enough to adjust their headlights aren’t the problem. The majority of people aren’t and they drive with those stadium lights everywhere.
Which is why I said they should be illegal. No idea why I’m being downvoted for telling the truth but whatever…
Those fuckers of all types are mounted 4 plus feet off the damn ground, there is zero adjustment you or anyone can make to stop them blinding me because THEY ARE ABOVE MY WHOLE ASS CAR!
Of course it is just the headlights but they’ve become more commonplace. I don’t remember them being as ubiquitous as they are now. The newer LED ones are the worst because they aren’t dispersed and are like pinpoint sources.
This is fucked. But aren’t “passenger vehicles” actually quite rare? I think most (environmental and safety) regulation is on passenger vehicles, which is why auto manufacturers try and sell so many trucks and SUVs since they don’t count as “passenger vehicles”. I could be wrong and this mandate is going to target all consumer vehicles.
Fuck all cars and our American car brained culture. But also fuck this legislation.
You are wrong. The move to SUVs and trucks is because the the larger a vehicle is, the more lenient the regulations are. That’s why the current Ranger is larger than a 90s F150.
Yeah IIRC emissions shit was like that. So you can get a truck that weighs 2500kg puts out 158g/km of emissions but not an Asian style mini-truck that weighs only 1500kg and puts out i.e. 130g/km of emissions because it’s in the same weight-class as say a Corolla (for which the max emissions might be only i.e. 100g/km)
So the mini truck might produce less pollution than the bigger truck and be perfectly useful for many people, but it’s too much PER WEIGHT and thus doesn’t qualify under the emissions regulations
Doesn’t matter. Manufacturers will put them in everything.
as someone who has dealt with over 20 years of pulling victims, alive and dead, from crashes caused by drunks (am firefighter not terrible driver…) I can say this won’t help shit. Just give more data (profit) to corporations and be used in rights violating ways.
It’s never actually about safety
Why do you think this will not help?
because drunks find a way to make trouble. they’ll get around the tech glitches in the imperfect deployments. they’ll be alert enough to trick it. etc. they’ll drink while driving and the system won’t see that and the impairment won’t be recognized till its too late. (i’m focused on system concerns because I am also a software engineer and know the realities of large scale tech like this.)
to counter the tech I think the punishments for impaired driving (including cell phone use) should be harsh and without kindness, if you cause another person harm. Federally. With no return of your privileges once convicted.
While I am very much anti-government, if I am not going to be allowed to “follow up” with someone who drank and ran over a family member, etc… then we might as well push the lawmakers to do their jobs with the laws we already have. Not make new ones that are clearly there to profit tech and not save lives.
Last year I drove my parent’s car which is equipped with one of these cameras that determine if the driver is distracted or dozing. And I can say for certain that it works. I honestly wish that my car had this sort of a system.
I view this tech like a padlock. Sure some people will do whatever they can to get around it, but it keeps honest people honest. If it can reduce deaths on the road from drunk and tired drivers even by a little bit then isn’t that worth it?
I’m not sure what you mean by not being able to follow up… Driving drunk and killing someone is already punished harshly, and you can even follow up civilly; it’s called a wrongful death suit.
It doesn’t work on everyone. These systems have trouble with certain eye shapes, eye makeup, etc.
Honest people don’t need the government to spy on them to not drive drunk though?
What about their proposed solution requires any of this data to leave the vehicle?
https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027
Can we post the original sources and not middle men?
Lol pre 2027 cars will sell at a premium
