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0 pointsatoav3y ago0 comments

Contrary to other "think of the children"-scenarios this one has an actual death number tacked to it.

And you might not be surprised, that children dying in traffic accidents does happen.extremely frequent. But forget the children, this also infringes on rights of regular people like me. Your right to drive around 2 tons of steel and plastics don't outweigh my right to not get killed by any stretch of the imagination.

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noduerme3y ago

For the last time, my comment is not about the privilege of people to drive (which you seem to want to abolish?) it's about the right to move around without being tracked. Also, it is about your rights to privacy if you should want to exercise them.

atoavOP3y ago

I am not sure how you extrapolate me being against people driving from me being against people speeding. You can drive very well without speeding.

Tracking is a different issue sure, but there is nothing in this problem that relies on tracking. You need to read the current map data and the position of the car via GPS. You need to write nothing (and given the privacy laws in Europe, I don't really see why we would).

noduerme3y ago

Your assumption that no data will be written, about where/when/why your car automatically brakes, is incredibly naive. Everything is written the moment your car has a GPS tied to a wireless service. If you think European privacy laws are preventing that from happening, you're utterly insane. Even if your country doesn't store the data, the Americans are storing it and your country may ask for it at any time.

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Contrary to other "think of the children"-scenarios this one has an actual death number tacked to it.

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noduerme3y ago

atoavOP3y ago

I am not sure how you extrapolate me being against people driving from me being against people speeding. You can drive very well without speeding.

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