Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops

Re:Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops by ryandrake on Monday July 29, 2024 @07:01PM (#41104567)

> US drivers get away with murder in terms of undertaking, tailgating, camping in fast lanes under the speed limit, not to mention driving vehicles that are in such states of disrepair that it's a miracle the drivers get anywhere.

Great, so why aren't those things ever candidates for this kind of automated enforcement? Why is it always "speeding"? In addition to the ones you listed, there are so many distractions now, too. Take a ride down any US freeway as a passenger in some kind of elevated vehicle (like a double decker bus) such that you can see down into people's cars: Probably 1/2 or more are totally out of it, distracted zombies scrolling on their phones. Nobody is calling for this to be cracked down on either.

It's always just "speeding". Like if we solve that, we're done.

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Re:Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops by chrstphrknwtn on Monday July 29, 2024 @08:37PM (#41105039)

Agree 100%.

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Re:Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops by lamontcg on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:59PM (#41111404)

Speeding is a lot easier to solve than distracted driving. It is pretty trivial to measure it objectively from outside the offending vehicle. Speeding also makes everything else worse due to stopping times and kinetic energy. It is also a black and white thinking fallacy to argue that just because someone promotes one thing that they necessarily demote everything else.

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