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Is the freedom to drive without feeling like you're being watched more important than the prevention of texting while driving?
During my commute, it's common to see people looking at their phones. I don't know what the effect is without statistics, but seeing an accident along the way is a usual occurrence.
Can't believe people still have the audacity to text while driving. I prefer reading a nice relaxing book.
I've seen a bus driver do this. No seriously. And it was the safer option. It was on one of those long desert stretches of road in Australia. No turns, interceptions, obstacles, or urbanization, and very little traffic for hundreds of miles.
It was better for the driver to read a book than to zone off bored near death. You could see incoming traffic miles away anyway so a few glances from time to time were enough.
It was funny when I spotted him and asked him "Are you seriously reading a book while driving?".
Or painting a nice landscape
inattentive driving should be considered gross negligence
I'm more concerned about error rates and false accusations
Yes, obviously. Ffs how is this post so full of authoritarian assholes who think more law enforcement (not even done by real people mind you, but by a machine with no sense of nuance or anything) is the solution to anything other than strengthening a fascist government?
Leaving traffic safety to human police, discretion often means racist biases and outcomes.
It's not authoritarian to use technology to improve people's lives. If you're in a public place, you're subject to being photographed by any number of circumstances both human and machine. How to balance it so that it isn't abused is a valid argument to have, but disregarding tech because it could run amok isn't a reason to forsake it altogether.
No. Your freedom to feel feelings is your problem. If you feel like you're not being observed right now, your feeling is already wrong.