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Comment by danboarder | Hacker News Reader

A couple quotes from the article that stood out to me:

"More pressing than the privacy concerns, though, are the safety issues. Including an automatic kill switch of this sort in a machine with internet access presents the obvious scenario that a malicious agent could disable your vehicle remotely with no warning."

and also:

"...by 2026, vehicles sold in the US will be required to automatically and silently record various metrics of driver performance, and then make a decision, absent any human oversight, whether the owner will be allowed to use their own vehicle. Even worse, the measure goes on to require that the system be "open" to remote access by "authorized" third parties at any time."

What could go wrong...

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Wow.

What does that do to the existing used car stock? Good luck getting usable metrics out of my '96 Nissan.

Also, Florida, where you can drive the inside of a car without the outside of the car and that's totally fine. How could a monster truck high lifted F150 be considered safe, or a 1500hp rollcage on wheels be considered safe, in the same breath as this legislature.

States will increase the yearly license plate tag costs for older vehicles until the cost of keeping the vehicle as a daily driver will not be economical. It takes a couple decades and then one day your children are adults and believe it normal for TSA to remote monitor driving and look under everyone's clothing at airports.

There will be exceptions for those things, just as there are for current auto regulations.

I think it's become confusing to discuss because some feel this is just another safety device, like a seatbelt. But this limits a persons ability to operate their vehicle at all based on some metrics of their behavior, which I feel is a pretty big grey area and worth thinking hard about.

It's mostly worrying for me because I doubt very highly that they could do it safely, both from cyber security standpoint and just a technologically robust standpoint. There would be so many edge cases, and if they use ML, it's going to be pretty hard to be transparent about how it works.

Pfft.. just cut the antenna.

Trust me, anything can go wrong will go wrong, just a matter of time.

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