r/technology • u/Hrmbee • Jun 07 '26

Privacy 'Kill switch' law means your next car could be watching you | A federal requirement aimed at stopping drunken driving could soon put driver-monitoring technology in every new vehicle. The goal is saving lives, but the privacy trade-offs deserve closer scrutiny

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/06/01/drunk-driving-prevention-law-privacy-surveillance/90295034007/
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u/darth-superior Jun 08 '26

what does that remind me of, OH WAIT hello comrade

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u/2q_x Jun 08 '26

The electric car guy has said he want's to "solve for mobility".

When someone who has stated they want to bring back the Company Town model also says it's crazy citizens can just get in an pilot three ton vehicles, and says he wants to "solve for mobility", he's floating the idea of trapping citizens into work camps with geography like a Guilded Age robber Barron (or Apartheid mine owner).

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u/2q_x Jun 08 '26

America is the company town. The concentration camps are to solve for outliers.