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I know I posted about this yesterday, but this article does a much better job than I can.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (27 children)

This isn't even political and quite likely the first article posted in this community with which I agree.

I'm against this because it's a terrible idea in terms of privacy and security.
It requires the kill switch to be triggered by software and I've worked in software... there will absolutely be bugs, hacks and/or abuse, possibly all of the above.
And no, that's not to say I'm against all software, but something that restricts or cuts power to your car seems like a terrible fucking idea.
I might be driving too erratically for whatever baseline they code, for an actual good reason... maybe I'm in a shitty backwoods road with holes bigger than the car.
Maybe the sensor is just defective.
People also drive non off-road vehicules... in off-road conditions.
I've rescued a wounded man with an internally bleeding leg, crushed by machinery, way out in the sticks, at the far edge of a field and several shittier backroads.
The ride back to civilization was an absolute shitshow and we barely made it back in time to save his life and his leg already. Interfering from some shit algorithm made with a perfect road in mind would have killed him. Which reminds me I should call them and visit them for a hug.

I don't ever want this shit in my car and I've never driven drunk or impaired, can't even remember my last speeding ticket from decades ago.

Obscure, proprietary, closed source software blobs isn't a solution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This isn't even political and quite likely the first article posted in this community with which I agree

How so is it not political? The government forcing your car to shut down seems like the definition of political.

And given that you don't support the government doing this, is that not also political?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea I meant something else at the time, but fumbled it.
Probably meant something like it shouldn't be partisan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That checks out. Calling it not political seemed really unusual, but it seems there's people who just spam "this isn't political" under every post, so I wasn't really sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No I probably just had a brain fart when I wrote that because it makes no sense to call in non political.

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