If I’m forced to use these things I’d at least like to have my conversations and yelling at other drivers be private
Close, but why does a tool need the operator’s data?
I’d actually not mind them getting monitored for breaches of the highway code, or investigation of homicides/crashes, stuff like that.
When you take dangerous things into public, there should be some accountability.
Not that I think that’s what the telemetry is intended for.
Yea, this is more shit like noticing you slowed down on an open road and adjusting up your insurance rate by 12 cents annually. It has a carve out for NHTSA which could still use the data to hand out speeding tickets automatically if they so chose.
It also prevents you from being blasted with an ad telling you to take the next left for half off cheeseburgers after leaving your office at 11:45. I don’t drive so it doesn’t effect me but targeted advertising can get fucked in all its forms.
Hell. Maybe only after self-driving cars become standard, you can monitor anyone driving for ‘fun’. Otherwise, in America driving isn’t really a privilege like they like to tell you, it’s something we’re all forced to do to merely survive (try getting a job without a car in suburban hell with no public transportation infrastructure).
I personally think speed cameras and red light cameras would be better ways of achieving driver accountability.
Those cameras end up costing the city more than the accidents they don’t prevent. What happens is, there are less red light crossing collisions, and more rear-end collisions. Eventually, you have less red light runners to ticket, but that turns the red light camera into an expensive cost - at least $4000/mo for each camera. You have to make more than that at each stop light to justify the camera.
The real solution is to make sure the yellow light is set with proper timing for that road. A yellow too short for the intersection increases red light running and potential for rear end collisions. But if you did that, then you won’t make anything on red light tickets, because no one would run the red light.
So the real problem is trying to budget the city based on criminal activity - you are effectively requiring a certain minimum level of crime to balance the books.
The solution is limiting the speed they can have. If e-bikes can be factory limited by law, cars too.
