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Beacons For Bicyclists And Pedestrians Enabling Detection By Connected Cars (www.forbes.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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literally hellworld.

In the future bicyclists who get killed by cars won't get the "didn't even wear a helmet" treatment but it will be "didn't even care for their life because they weren't wearing the tesla collar beacon". For pedestrians as well...

Beaconization—or equipping bicycles and pedestrians with transponder beacons that can be spotted automatically by sensor-equipped cars—has been given the official seal of approval in the U.S. [...]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This is so incredibly dumb. Just build proper bike lines.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

To difficult for politicians.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago

I will love to see some random person completely distroying the system the day that it goes public

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago

Sounds like fun to clone and place ... fucking everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Self driving cars: Supposedly orders of magnitudes smarter than human drivers.

Also self driving cars: Can't see a person on a bike without outside help.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Once people realise that you can buy a bunch of these and throw them in the road, they will disappear

e: typo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

They'll make them personalized and come after you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

mixed feelings.
bad just because opt-in becomes the expected norm.