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Driver facing camera in cars
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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I fckn hate these laws that force so much tech into new cars under the guise of safety. Not only is it a massive breach in privacy (I don't care if the car manufacturers claim they don't use this data for identification, I won't belive them), but it also makes small cars way more expensive, comparatively. Fck this sh*t, cars have been becoming obnoxiously expensive and forced BS tech like that just makes everything worse.
It's rent seeking through regulations. It's too expensive to make a simple car that also complies with these regulations. The only people who can afford to do it are gigantic established brands with a century of production lines and established infrastructure.
"Oh no. More car brands failed. We can't let them fail can we? Allow us to merge more?"
"Oh no. We're in trouble financially. If we die you won't have cars at all any more because we merged everything. Lots and lots of your voters will be pissed if that happens. There's also no way in hell a new car brand is going to establish itself when it costs so damn much to meet these regulations we lobbied and guided to benefit our established interests"
Well you see, if we force car companies to invent magical safety technology to paper over bad road design and too many cars on the road, then we can avoid addressing the bad road design and too many cars on the road!
Yeah they could mandate dual side mirrors to cover blind spots that would prevent a lot of crashes, but they rather mandate a beeping sound right before you crash instead idk
they are turning us into worker consumer slaves... all the freedoms the boomer got to enjoy... welp those days are over and the voting booth will not change this. Full-spectrum dominance + Imperial boomerang = We are slaves and there is no future via the voting booth. Big Brother knows best. Both parties are OK with this.
Clearly they use it for identification if as the OP said the camera can be used to load your driver profile. As far as I know that goes directly against the EU law stating no biometric data can be processed by the camera.
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Calm down, Francis, it's a $9 camera that watches if you are nodding off or using your phone while driving.
These are among the activities that kill 30,000 people a year on US roads.