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Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening

208 points · 139 comments · longhaul

rcpt · 1791131836 · focus · HN ↗
If this tech was being used for traffic enforcement then I'm all for it. Unfortunately it seems like people will still be able to browse their phone behind the wheel and run over kids on bikes despite the surveillance
1. m463 · 1791137672 · focus · HN ↗
  > If this tech was being used for traffic enforcement then I'm all for it.
  that would create hell on earth.
  The people whose job to do this are the police, and it should not be delegated in this dystopian way, let alone by your own possessions.
2. downrightmike · 1791138286 · focus · HN ↗
  The world has collectively agreed to let the kids die. Old are eating the kid's earnings and putting them in more debt than any generation ever. Then there is the world itself is boiling and we are the frogs
3. _heimdall · 1791141509 · focus · HN ↗
  Why would it be okay for traffic enforcement?
  The issue with privacy violations isn't how it is being used today, its how it may be used later and the precedent it sets for future invasions of privacy.
4. extr0pian · 1791159303 · focus · HN ↗
  This is why I really want self-driving vehicles to take off.

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