They are going monitor my milage

[togor]

No lane assist in my newest machine, which is some years old. But it has the sensors for blind spots, and back-up cameras.

Mostly I'm talking about the inward-facing cameras which are supposed to watch us to beep at us if we're falling asleep or something.

It's always done with the best intentions.

If a modern car gets wrecked, the argument goes that the data in the black box belongs to the manufacturer, who can give it to law enforcement if they so choose.

Interesting to read that Tesla is moving HQ to Texas. The car that is leaning into Big Brother more than any other brand operating out of the state that used to take the dimmest view of that kind of thing. Also the irony of an electric car moving HQ to a big petroleum producer, with the least reliable electric grid in the country.

[Major Tom]

Hmmm! Maybe Togor is on our side; a republican in dimocrat disquise?

[kj47]

It goes to show how deep this control effort is going. they want to know how much money you have how you spend. Where you go and restrict criticism of them by calling it disinformation. It never ends.

[Allen]

It goes to show how deep this control effort is going. they want to know how much money you have how you spend. Where you go and restrict criticism of them by calling it disinformation. It never ends.

Add to that the experimental vaccine mandates and now the DOJ has said they will investigate anyone who speaks out against liberal education board members.

[Faulkner]

Amazing how any free American would be okay with this.

[togor]

Amazing how any free American would be okay with this.

Safety and convenience sell.

Next time you watch TV (or listen to the radio), make note of the ads. Note these are broadcast ad streams, not the microtargeted ones you get on the web.

They're selling safety, convenience, again and again and again. And people buy it.

[dryheat]

How come in the car ads on t.v. people drive like maniacs?

[Faulkner]

Safety and convenience sell.

Next time you watch TV (or listen to the radio), make note of the ads. Note these are broadcast ad streams, not the microtargeted ones you get on the web.

They're selling safety, convenience, again and again and again. And people buy it.

They have to scare them first, then hit 'em with the safety and convenience aspects. The evidence seems to indicate Americans are easy to scare.

[togor]

They have to scare them first, then hit 'em with the safety and convenience aspects. The evidence seems to indicate Americans are easy to scare.

Speaking of convenience, park your DL on your smart phone!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/11/digital-drivers-license-mdl/

Apple, Google, etc., working on common standards to make it happen.

So your government ID, tagged to GPS, uplinks at every cell tower, what's not to love???

[dryheat]

I kind of like my phone. Haven't been it by lightening yet. What's a cell tower? It's not the radiation in the phones it's the imagination.
OK, it's the radiation in the cell tower. Couldn't slam a phone, that little funnel that picks up radio waves and compresses them and then sends tiny well...
Yeah, I know, we are a little too country for this. Well, that would be me. I honestly remember the telegraph line strung on a tripod of thin logs. One wire that went to the mining camp.