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Perhaps in the future cars will not only record your face but also listen in for hate speech. Most cars have SOS and GPS modules so calling the police if someon
by artisinal 3mo ago
Perhaps in the future cars will not only record your face but also listen in for hate speech. Most cars have SOS and GPS modules so calling the police if someone in the car shouts a slur is just connecting some code together.
- shevy-java 3mo agoWell, it is some kind of social control. People who conform, have more rights than those who reject fascism.
- Z0rp 3mo agoCar could also become judge and executioner. Swift justice is just one curve away
- ThrowawayTestr 3mo agoDrive you straight to prison
- artisinal 3mo agoIt is cheaper for the government to just lock the car doors for the length of your sentence. Saves them space in prison. You are allowed to use the McDrive twice a day. The windows will drop 8 centimeters, enough for a Big Mac.
- morkalork 3mo agoAmerica is leading the way on that one: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/two-teens-learn-the-hard-way-not-to-do-toy-gun-drivebys-from-a-waymo/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/two-teens-learn-the-har...
- yubblegum 3mo agoWhy do you think this is only going to be in Europe? This will be the global norm modulo some astroid hitting earth or civilizational crash. The trajectory is crystal clear: access to information (AI), control over personal finance (CBDC), privacy of personal communications (handful of big tech MITM in everything), metered social interactions (today China, tomorrow the world over).
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoYou say that like it’s a bad fnord
- john_strinlai 3mo agoi am interested in hearing why you think it is not god awful
- RIMR 3mo agoI mean, I get that these things are typically matters of opinion, but if you value things like freedom and privacy, these things are objectively bad.
- spwa4 3mo agoUntil the sun grows in a final blaze of glory and burns all Qurans at the same time for 100 million years?
- logicchains 3mo agoFortunately the US has not only freedom of speech in the constitution but also tens of millions of armed civilians that place a hard limit on how much control the government can have over people's speech. The only reason the Chinese government can achieve such control over speech is because it can disappear anyone who speaks against it. It doesn't even need guns; Nepalese youth managed to stop social media censorship there just by going to the political capital and threatening to beat the MPs to death.
- niels8472 3mo ago
- neongod 3mo agoThe car’s computer voice: John Spartan you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality code!
- greenleafone7 3mo agoI think this should go one step further. If you don't praise the magnificence of your local EU politicians then your car's breaks will stop working and an electric shot will be administered to everyone presently in the car. That will satisfy EU-rocrats. The coming revolution will be well deserved I think.
- vrganj 3mo agoMan, the paranoid ramblings every time the EU gets mentioned here really are something else...
- Aerroon 3mo agoThen maybe they should stop doing things that invite this nonsense? We've already been down the road of the EU mandating ISPs save all your browsing history with the Data Retention Directive. At this point the EU has to prove that they are not doing things like that rather than getting the benefit of the doubt.
- greenleafone7 3mo agoYeah man, like ... the EU just wants to control what you say, where you go, what you buy, while themselves are one of the most corrupt organization in the history of Europe, why don't people love them is beyond me. I think you are confusing what a private citizen is. Focus on the word 'private'. Ursula should know NOTHING about me. I should know everything about Ursula, she lives on MY dime.
- sam_lowry_ 3mo agoThis is called eCall, a fairly intrusive system built into even some motorcycles.
- specproc 3mo agoDanger, danger. Cannabis detected in the vehicle.