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

Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

So this isn’t an external kill switch. It’s far more likely to be a lane and driver monitoring system integral to the car itself.

The big problem is what do you do with a car that’s stopped itself? Obviously you need emergency services, and obviously you can’t depend on the passengers to call them. So the real effect here is to mandate the integration of vehicles into the emergency service networks so the car can call up dispatch.

I would say this is another brick in the argument for an open source car operating system that keeps the car offline and gives you the tools you want.

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