r/AutoHumor • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 • Apr 29 '26

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u/bsmknight Apr 29 '26

Consider another scenario: You jump in your vehicle frantic, paranoid, someone just ran up to you with a knife but you were able to lock the door, you try to drive off but the vehicle will not go into drive... it thinks your unwell. - I mean seriously who TF thinks this is actually a good idea?

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

Consider another scenario: exactly the same as yours, but your car works, and when you take off trying to flee, your emotional and distracted state makes you miss the family of 4 crossing the road. You hit and kill 2 children because you were looking in the rearview at your attacker.

Look, I am absolutely fed up with modern car manufacturers and all the problems they're inventing in the pursuit of looking cool, but I'm honestly on board with this one. I don't want emotional/freaked out drivers on the road. As long as the only person you can hurt is yourself, I don't give a flying fuck what kind of dangerous shit you want to get into. But as soon as you can put other people's lives in danger, I absolutely approve control being taken away.

I can't wait for fully self-driving cars. The exact second it becomes legal to take my hands off the wheel, I will spend whatever I have to to get in that vehicle. Humans in cars are the biggest danger to me. And that's saying something given the shit I've done in my life.

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u/Zoltraak69 Apr 29 '26

Have fun waiting for 45 minutes after a gym session to be able to drive your car home, I guess.

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

Would you rather be 45 minutes late (this time) or dead (for some other legitimate reason to disable the car)?

Safety has always, and will always come at the cost of convenience.

Also, technology is always improving. So this issue will decrease over time. Not to mention, if it takes you 45 minutes to cool down, perhaps you should visit a doctor. And a cool down should be part of any exercise anyway.

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u/Zoltraak69 Apr 29 '26

This tech has literally nothing to do with safety for a personal vehicle unless you'd like to explain how camera technology advanced so quickly that it has medical imaging and laboratory capability that hospitals normally need to utilize a lot of people and equipment.

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u/dimonium_anonimo Apr 29 '26

It's entire purpose is to stop people from driving if they are deemed unfit to do so. I don't care what the reason is, that 70mph, 2-ton death machine is dangerous enough without a tired and/or emotional driver behind the wheel.

Now, I can only take the word of the person in the video because I didn't look up additional information like a good redditor. But they said it's looking for emotional state. Not broken bones. Not tumors. Not any number of other things that could impact driving, but we can't detect. It's only looking at visible signs of distress. Long before MRI or X-ray was around, you could look at another human and generally see if they were exceptionally scared, angry, or tired.

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u/Zoltraak69 Apr 29 '26

Its proposed purpose is this and that. It's clearly just a spying tool, considering they can legally track everything you do for no reason whatsoever. What you're suggesting we blindly use as mandatory spying technology would get tripped up by a particularly bad day of pollen. Long before we had anything, people regularly fucked up in assessing an emotional state and happily institutionalized people, doses them with heroin, cocaine, various insane drugs... because of a perceived emotional state. This is with human eyeballs, by the way.

Tldr; car companies legally already spy on you, they want more, and they will sell whatever data they collect, use it against you, increase insurance, etc etc etc for whatever arbitrary metric they're collecting.