It’s 1984 and no one cares
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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Chinese EVs it is, nonIronically safer and more trustworthy than American products
This is fucked. But aren't "passenger vehicles" actually quite rare? I think most (environmental and safety) regulation is on passenger vehicles, which is why auto manufacturers try and sell so many trucks and SUVs since they don't count as "passenger vehicles". I could be wrong and this mandate is going to target all consumer vehicles.
Fuck all cars and our American car brained culture. But also fuck this legislation.
The day the vehicle I paid for doesn't work because a goddamn sensor thinks I'm not fit to drive is the day I break my foot off in someone's ass.
Fuck this dystopian shit show we're creating for ourselves.
Vote better.
And ride a bike
How about limiting the insanely bright headlights first?
Is it the bright headlights or the abundance of trucks raised so high that the headlights beam directly into your eyeballs...
Both. It's both.
Properly adjusted headlights and people driving the appropriate following distance behind you should never have glaringly bright lights. Sadly neither is true very often. I’ve seen headlights out of whack straight from the factory. Headlights trend downward but people tailgating the shit out of you puts you in the beam path. Yes, height differences obviously play a role here.
I have a Miata, nearly anything on the road can blind me cause my head is only about ~3.5 feet(~1m) off the ground. The entire car is only about 4 feet(~1.2m) tall.
To anybody that lifted their vehicle truck or otherwise…did the thought of adjusting your headlights even cross your mind? I’m guessing not.
I’m also going to toss this out there…for the love of God do not put led bulbs in halogen light fixtures. I don’t care if they say they ‘mimic’ the halogen beam pattern…they don’t. You’re blinding everyone on the damn road just stop please, I beg you. (This is going to be the controversial piece that people respond to….yes, I know of a few bulbs that do okay at this but they’re expensive. People are buying the $20 ones on Amazon, and they suck at it. So my blanket statement is just don’t…please just don’t).
https://www.gadgetreview.com/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-in-new-cars-by-2027
Can we post the original sources and not middle men?
So this works perfectly and has no bugs, right? There's probably going to be millions of false positives everyday and people won't be able to use their cars. Between this and AI age verification and everything else, the dumbass politicians in power seem to think all this shit is magical wizardry. Their going to cause society to collapse.
Their going to cause society to collapse.
Not cause, but slightly accelerate.
as someone who has dealt with over 20 years of pulling victims, alive and dead, from crashes caused by drunks (am firefighter not terrible driver..) I can say this won’t help shit. Just give more data (profit) to corporations and be used in rights violating ways.
It's never actually about safety
Yup, same old "think of the children" excuse. It's a carrot on a string so you don't look at the stick.
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Open source hardware needs to be built up more. To do that we need more new people active in that to get different things done. Including vehicles
The next step in the chain is to make that impossible or illegal. Already the case with a motor vehicle you can't just build one and drive it. Building your own 3D printer will soon be illegal after they've added spyware to that. Manufacturing RAM is nearly impossible. Building a PC becomes more and more impossible each passing day. They add the spyware and then strip the means to production whether through permitting, licensing, regulation, scarcity. It's all the same bullshit in different costumes.
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The used car market looks mighty good right about now.
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