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That's going to be a tiny percentage of the lives that are currently lost each day due to distracted and impaired drivers. Not that I think a kill-switch is a

That's going to be a tiny percentage of the lives that are currently lost each day due to distracted and impaired drivers. Not that I think a kill-switch is a good idea as it's a technological solution to a law enforcement issue - that rarely works out well, especially when the tech is in the hands of the consumer. Unfortunately, there's a huge public bias towards driving and whenever there's discussion of limiters, people often come out with rare edge cases and ignore the very large numbers of problems that comes with unlimited vehicles. Personally, I think the problems are best solved with standard law enforcement procedures - a cop sees someone speeding, so they pull them over and get them fined.

jasonjayr 3y ago
What if instead of a kill switch, it's just a silent beacon to summon an officer to pull over the driver and investigate? Why are people okay with computers automatically judging gray area situations?
- ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
  That sounds better to me. I still think it's a bad idea to have the tech in the possession of the driver as that means that persistent drunks would find a way to bypass it (e.g. cover it in metal foil).
  - rangestransform 3y ago
    My hardware is mine and it should especially never deliberately incriminate me. This is bad for the same reason that client side csam scanning is bad
- masklinn 3y ago
  > What if instead of a kill switch, it's just a silent beacon to summon an officer to pull over the driver and investigate? Because the odds that the impaired or distracted driver has crashed before the officer is anywhere near (if they even respond to the call at all) are significant.
- causality0 3y ago
  Considering how civilization is already covered in surveillance cameras, it won't be long until computer vision programs will already be able to do that without the driver's own equipment having to betray them.

jasonjayr 3y ago

What if instead of a kill switch, it's just a silent beacon to summon an officer to pull over the driver and investigate? Why are people okay with computers automatically judging gray area situations?

ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
That sounds better to me. I still think it's a bad idea to have the tech in the possession of the driver as that means that persistent drunks would find a way to bypass it (e.g. cover it in metal foil).
- rangestransform 3y ago
  My hardware is mine and it should especially never deliberately incriminate me. This is bad for the same reason that client side csam scanning is bad
masklinn 3y ago
> What if instead of a kill switch, it's just a silent beacon to summon an officer to pull over the driver and investigate? Because the odds that the impaired or distracted driver has crashed before the officer is anywhere near (if they even respond to the call at all) are significant.
causality0 3y ago
Considering how civilization is already covered in surveillance cameras, it won't be long until computer vision programs will already be able to do that without the driver's own equipment having to betray them.