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Yes, I predict when transport becomes completely automated, bicycles will be the most free way to travel (even more than walking).
by jacknews 3y ago
Yes, I predict when transport becomes completely automated, bicycles will be the most free way to travel (even more than walking).
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoOr you can just remove datalink from your car. Job done.
- echelon 3y agoEvery other car is a surveillance node. Smartphones and digital payments, too. It won't matter if you participate or not - the sensors are a miasma that surround you, and your behavior will be captured and inferred anyway. The world of Enemy of the State (prescient film) is real [1]. Just wait until we get DNA sensors that capture the air and endothelial cells you exhale [2]. Those are coming too. Perhaps a lot like the ones in GATTACA. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film) [2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/airborne-dna-accidentally-collected-by-air-quality-filters-reveals-state-of-species https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/airborne...
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoSo you are saying that feeding fake data into cameras and poisoning the well would be more effective?
- soligern 3y agoNo, your poison is ineffective in a very large well.
- DeathArrow 3y agoDoes anyone know a cozy place in Amazonian jungle where's no phone signal?
- JohnFen 3y agoI know plenty of cozy places in my part of the US that have no cell signal.
- activiation 3y agoHow? Where are the guides for all car models?
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoWorkshop manual -> Search for antennas. No antenna. No signal. No datalink.
- wood_spirit 3y agoIf the iPhone can use its body as an antenna then your car can use its wiring or body parts etc?
- planede 3y agoHopefully you can find a single antenna connection and suitably terminate it (instead of just having it unpopulated). But yeah, no guarantees that this is possible, or terminating all external antenna connectors is sufficient.
- landgenoot 3y agoAnd no eCall. I can put my car in offline mode (blue link).
- activiation 3y agohttps://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1
- jacknews 3y agoin the future: "error, vehicle without active datalink detected, intercept, intercept"
- pessimizer 3y agoAnd the police pull you over for a TOS, EULA, and/or DMCA violation.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoAlready today manufacturers will add into their TOS that you are not allowed to reverse engineer their car. Well simple loophole is to just sell the car to third person which did not sign this agreement and then manufacturer's TOS does not apply to him.
- ourmandave 3y agoBut how will we download ads to your dash entertainment system? Or remotely nerf your car if you miss a few payments?
- DarkCrusader2 3y agoWhy better than walking?
- rhplus 3y agoYou can go farther. Because of this, bicycles played a significant role in women’s liberation movements. https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/pedaling-path-freedom https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/pedaling-path-freedom
- ethanbond 3y agoNot GP but one reason: gait detection is already good enough (I believe?) to uniquely identify individuals. I mean if everyone starts riding bikes they’ll just apply the same tech anyway. There’s no winning this arms race, the only protection is going to be laws so we should really be putting much more care into laws, the people who make them, and the systems that put or remove them from power.
- jacknews 3y agoYes gait detection and also face recognition, cyclists have a reason to wear masks, glasses, etc, pedestrians don't, are moving slower, etc.
- autoexec 3y agoPervasive surveillance means that pedestrians do have a reason wear masks, glasses, etc. Although it isn't enforced, its already illegal in most places to wear masks in public though. I've seen exceptions carved out for children (because of Halloween) and for people with doctor's notes, but not for cyclists
- Tade0 3y ago> gait detection is already good enough (I believe?) to uniquely identify individuals. Gait is one of those modalities that gets rediscovered every decade only to, again, yield no results. There's just too much noise and variability over time for it to qualify for broader use. It's much easier to get a detailed image of a person's iris from 100m.
- wood_spirit 3y agoYour journey will be witnessed and recorded by all the other vehicles on the road…
- flycaliguy 3y agoAnd your unique cadence and breathing patterns will make you identifiable from 100 meters away.
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- pessimizer 3y agoAnd your phone is in your bag.
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- kjkjadksj 3y agoEasy. Every other time you go out give yourself a charlie horse. The data will be shit.
- planede 3y ago"Most free", not "totally free".
- JohnFen 3y agoI agree. Actually, I think this is already mostly true.