The Right Not to Be Subjected to AI Profiling Based on Publicly Available Data

Re:The Right Not to Be Subjected to AI Profiling Based on Pu... by nradov on Thursday June 06, 2024 @01:11PM (#40599869)

I have no problem with strict enforcement of current speed limits in residential areas. But speed limits on controlled access highways in many states are set ridiculously low. When government officials try to claim that a 65mph limit on a flat, straight freeway is necessary for "safety" it's obvious that they're being disingenuous and this is just a revenue grab. It breeds contempt for the law among the driving public and is ultimately counterproductive.

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Re:The Right Not to Be Subjected to AI Profiling Based on Pu... by xerox13ster on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:51PM (#40601009)

The emissions and efficiency difference between 55, 60, 65, and 70mph are significant and cannot be understated. It makes such a real difference for air quality that TEXAS (the state that hates regulation and built the monstrosity called the Katy freeway) has a reduced speed limit in some metro areas for air quality reasons.

In fact, the reason most national highways have a speedlimit of 50mph, even out in the boonies in Kansas where everything is flat and straight, is because of the fuel crisis of the 70s.

When I was a child, I was curious why highways were 50mph but the interstates had a speedlimit of 65-70mph, so I went and found out instead of assuming it was a disingenous revenue grab.

Most interstates were generally built after the fuel crisis, and they modified the national speed limit in 1988, setting the speed to 65mph, again for efficiency reasons. It was repealed in 1995. Perhaps 65mph is what was considered safe for the road and vehicular technology at the time, and no one has had the political or municipal capital to do a new study ever since.

You want that speed limit changed, contact your reps, I guess.

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Re:The Right Not to Be Subjected to AI Profiling Based on Pu... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:27PM (#40604042)

> emissions and efficiency difference between 55, 60, 65, and 70mph are significant and cannot be understated

Wouldn't this be an argument for a higher EV speed limit?

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Re:The Right Not to Be Subjected to AI Profiling Based on Pu... by amanaplanacanal on Friday June 07, 2024 @04:36AM (#40606593)

You typically don’t want different limits for different vehicles on the same highway. Although where I live trucks have a lower limit than passenger vehicles.

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Re:The Right Not to Be Subjected to AI Profiling Based on Pu... by xerox13ster on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:39AM (#40706066)

Not unless you reallllllllly enjoy inhaling extremely carcinogenic brake dust and tire microplastics and rubber dust.

The efficiency loss at speed still applies to EVs due to friction and laws of momentum.

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