Comment on The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore

DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looking at the other articles on the site, I count one antivaxx and another that claims the newly elected fascist in Argentina is a "Libertarian".

  Thanks for linking to a sane review.

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I literally downvoted before reading anything besides the title. An unknown publication making an outlandish claim. Obvious rage bait. It’s sad to see so many of these nothing stories gain traction here. It’s so fucking obvious.

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    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The FEE has been around for a very long time.

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• yukichigai@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the analysis is correct in that the implementation will die in committee before ever making it to effect, not to mention the practical considerations of implementing this in the lighting-fast timeframe of 3 years. However, I cannot help but point out this part:

  So far, not a kill switch, but some kind of technology to detect if you’re driving like a drunk person and disable the vehicle.

  "Disable the vehicle" is literally what people mean when they talk about a "kill switch". At best that's an argument over semantics. The law mandates a thing that deliberately stop your car from functioning.

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• admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's not a lie. There's no malicious intent. It's just not even wrong. It so fundamentally lacks understanding of the underlying bureaucracy, technology, product lifecycle, and surrounding politics politics that it amounts to nothing.

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