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Ok, I recently submitted a story about forensic tests for distracted driving. Now we have this:
Volvo on Wednesday announced plans to install cameras in its vehicles that will monitor drivers for signs of distracted or impaired driving and take action if it appears that a driver’s behavior becomes dangerous.
The Swedish automaker, which recently announced that it would limit the top speeds of its cars as a way of making highways safer, said the cameras would be part of a system that would slow the vehicles and “safely park” them on the side of the road if they detected that a driver was becoming incapacitated or if the driver’s attention had lapsed for a long time. The technology would also summon help from its 24/7 assistance center.
Fuck this. That's my opinion. The day my vehicle tells me that I can't go faster than 73, when I'm headed to the emergency room...
Also, I know that this post is from the Washington Post. If you've already read too many of their articles this month, and are paywalled, consider blocking java script. Works for me...
Also at TechRadar, Engadget & CNet Roadshow.
(Score: 2) by leftover on Thursday March 21 2019, @07:51PM (3 children)
Doesn't Volvo plan to "promise" no deaths in some|any of their vehicles by some date? That promise could certainly drive them to such a draconian measure. It would certainly force consumers to make a clear decision.
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 21 2019, @08:10PM
No deaths? Zero?
No drivers who might have a corronary? Or with passengers who might?
No driving volvos on roads with other vehicles that might collide with them?
No driving volvos on roads near stationary objects the car might hit? Cliffs they might fall off of?
Or enough "smart car" bits to make all those impossibly fatal? So in built AEDs? (Automatic Electronic Defibrillators) ...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday March 21 2019, @08:34PM
Yep. By 2020 no less.
"Volvo has announced that it will limit the top speed of its cars to 180 kph, or 112 mph. The carmaker says it wants to send "a strong signal about the dangers of speeding," and from 2020, no Volvo cars can go faster than that. The limit is part of Volvo's Vision 2020, which aims for zero road deaths or severe injuries in a Volvo by 2020. Polestar models were not mentioned."
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/03/04/volvo-112-mph-top-speed-limit/ [autoblog.com]
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday March 22 2019, @02:55PM
To repeat the old joke from The Other Site, all that means is the vehicle has to eject them in an accident so they die outside.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"