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Originally Posted by stamps
How about instead of cutting off engine power immediately our tech of the future takes control of the vehicle pulls over safely reports the incident to AMA/Alcohol&Drug Monitoring Inc. then shuts off engine power  |
We should call their mum, too.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The reason is to prevent drunk driving. There’s a lot of safety features on your car you’ll never need. Let’s use your logic and get rid of all of them.
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Most safety features that aren't emergency interventions can be switched
off. Things like lane-keep assist and traction / stability control can easily be disabled with the press of a button (or several depending how deep in a vehicle menu it's buried).
I mean, you could just ban cars or ban alcohol if you really want to target the source. It's about as realistic.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s the dumbest thing in the world. People here are literally arguing against even a theoretical future when something like blood alcohol is measured before you can start a car. Just… nope, technology will never change and it’s impossible and expensive and everyone is a hacker and it will cost me one minute and that’s unacceptable and MY FREEEEDOM.
We’re at the brink of self driving cars and people are literally saying software that could accomplish this would be more difficult than developing entirely new drugs or changing brain chemistry.
Because it might, maybe, inconvenience them… in theory…
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Spare us the pearl-clutching. The dumbest thing in the world is that when faced with having virtually no response to any of the actual points made as to why such a thing is unfeasible -- of which there are several after even a cursory glance at the proposal -- is a retreat to handwaving it all away with some vague "but technology!!!" retort, and the usual throwaway bait one-liners like "Guys everyone is a hacker so software can never be the solution". Then again, I probably don't know what I'm talking about, it's not like I do sh-t like this as a hobby or anything. The laptops and OBD-II interfaces are just for decoration.
Developing new drugs happens
all the time, it is most certainly less difficult to do that than it is to create unhackable software; after all, there is literally
no such thing.
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Originally Posted by GGG
That was the bait for Pepsi to see if he was committed to his significant inconvenience for everyone to save lives.
Alas it didn’t work.
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Pepsi just likes to argue when he has a willing dance partner. [shrug] Can't fault him, I've been known to myself.