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Remove the legal requirements for license plates or tinted windows. We gimp the ability of the public to obfuscate their vehicle by forcing us to have license
by beeflet 11mo ago
Remove the legal requirements for license plates or tinted windows.
We gimp the ability of the public to obfuscate their vehicle by forcing us to have license plates in the first place, when we already prove our license to drive with VIN and registration.
Also, remove the intellectual property protections associated with the appearance of vehicles, thus creating a market of clones that can easily fit in with each other.
- andylynch 11mo agoThat’s kind of the point of license plates though. They are there firstly so that when a driver damages something or hurts someone, they can be held responsible. What’s so bad about that?
- beeflet 11mo agoThey can be used to hold anyone responsible for anything I deem wrong. What's so bad about that? Let's say I'm partnering with flock to track anyone who drives to say, a political convention I disagree with, and basically make your life hell. Maybe you don't want your employer to know everywhere you go. What's so bad about that? Or maybe you offended me in public, as long as I record your plate number I can find out your place of residence and employment through the FlockYou app for only $5. After all, people deserve to be held accountable for their actions.
- andylynch 11mo agoMore practically, it’s about if someone hits you or someone you care about with their car or the like. Aggregation of data like Flock does is a different matter and can be handled separately. Like I mentioned in my other comment, other countries tend not to have things like Flock, since they understand unregulated data processing such as that is problematic for all sorts of reasons; the US is a big , big outlier in this area.