In the future, your car will surveil you and even prevent you from driving. If you are in the European Union, that future is this year.
“According to Chapter II, Article 6 of the Regulation [(EU) 2019/2144], motor vehicles shall be equipped with intelligent speed assistance, alcohol interlock installation facilitation, driver drowsiness and attention warning, advanced driver distraction warning, emergency stop signal, reversing detection and event data recorder.
“The new regulation also points out that the advanced braking systems, intelligent speed assistance, emergency lane-keeping systems, driver drowsiness and attention warning and reversing detection have a high potential to reduce casualty numbers significantly, thus contributing to overall highway safety.
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“The regulation was introduced in November 2019 and will apply to all new vehicles placed on the EU market, registered or entered into service from July 6, 2022.”
It’s almost like the EU thinks you need a 24/7 nanny watching you in your car.
For now the recording of your cars monitoring of you is supposed to loop so that only the most recent driving is kept recorded… but that could easily change. It can, and already is, getting worse:
“That’s not speculation; it already happened. Under new EU rules, passed just a few months ago, every driver has to be re-certified and issued a new driver’s license after 15 years. It would be the smallest of tweaks to add “or after Y number of distraction warnings are recorded” to that legislation.
“The new driver’s licenses will be digital, with biometrics included. It’s possible new cars will be undrivable without a scan of your biometric license.
“Your car’s data will be uploaded to a database, of course. That’s going to happen.
“…in fact, it already is.”
If if they promise to not horde the information of every little thing you do in your car, that won’t stop anyone in the future from doing so, or for you to be compelled to share with your insurance company as a condition of coverage.
Oh, and a lot of this is coming to America.
“NHTSA said there are currently no production vehicles with technology capable of passively detecting blood and/or breath alcohol concentration, and that’s a major problem.
“Even if a system were somehow 99.9% accurate, NHTSA says that would still create millions of false positives annually.
“That means sober drivers could potentially be locked out of their own vehicles.”
Everything you do will be monitored. Big Brother would be envious.
