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I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (Poe's law), but here are two rebuttals anyway: 1. 5 minutes to drive anywhere in the suburbs---bwahahaha, you must be j
by 205guy 10y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (Poe's law), but here are two rebuttals anyway:
1. 5 minutes to drive anywhere in the suburbs---bwahahaha, you must be joking. When everyone lives in the suburbs, it's all sprawl, and some left turn lights take 5 minutes. You know, if I had to sum up one reason why I left the suburbs, it's the left turn lights in Silicon Valley: the roads are so large, they don't trust people to yield on left turns, so they make you wait for a left turn arrow whether there is traffic or not.
2. License plate recognition is much simpler and more reliable than face recognition. And it's already deployed. Just sayin'.
- curioussavage 10y ago1 just like you example I was only referring to the suburbs where i used to live. I think anywhere in Silicon Valley is a crappy place to use as an example for suburbs. I also said everywhere I "need" to go not everywhere I want to go. (I'm of course not including going to work) grocery store, gas, heck even city hall, all the regular places. I was of course exaggerating the time. But it's still a maximum of 20 minutes for the few that aren't 2 license plate readers traffic cams etc, are all things that are bolted on top of the road/car system. People can and are fighting them. But trains are the perfect transportation system for surveillance. All the data is there built in. While getting rid of surveillance on the road will be hard, pigs will fly before they remove cameras and anonymize payments on trains.