esseph a day ago

Nobody had said anything about telemetry, so far. The rest of us are talking about actual safety features.

  • DaSHacka 19 hours ago

    They're often one and the same in newer vehicles, unfortunately.

    Criminalizing modifying your own car only stands to benefit the corporations that salivate at the mouth thinking of the data mining opportunities.

    • messe 17 hours ago

      Criminalizing driving cars with certain modifications on public roads serves to benefit other people on the road, pedestrians, and society as a whole.

      • DaSHacka 9 hours ago

        In this case, modifications that remove or limit "safety features" that aren't even a requirement now, and many cars on the road don't have?

        Not to mention, as others in the thread brought up, can invite issues of their own.

dgfitz 12 hours ago

It’s so funny to me that people think just because a law is passed, that fixes problems.

“This wasn’t illegal and now we made it illegal, we fixed the problem!”

How’s that been working out?

  • zimpenfish 11 hours ago

    I'm guessing you haven't died from polluted drinking water, contaminated food, fake medicines, smog, unsafe vehicles, unsafe roads, dangerous household goods, lethal home wiring, shoddily constructed housing, or any of the other hundreds of things that laws have improved?

    • dgfitz 9 hours ago

      Goalposts moved.

      I’ll never drive a car that in any way takes control of the steering or brakes. Full stop. If I need to modify the car to disable that feature, I will.

      At least I’m honest about it.

      Pass all the laws in the name of good ideas for the children. If I disagree with it, I’m not going to obey it. I’m not unique in this.

      I’m fucking tired of being told “I’m smarter than you and this is actually in your best interest, trust me.”

      Did you know that child labor actually increased in India after laws that tried to eliminate child labor?

      Let’s keep patting ourselves on the back that we can feel good about passing laws though.

      • zimpenfish an hour ago

        I quote: "It’s so funny to me that people think just because a law is passed, that fixes problems."

        I gave you a whole bunch of problems that have been fixed by passing laws.

        > child labor actually increased in India after laws that tried to eliminate child labor

        I did not. Which law are we talking about? 1948, 1952, 1986 or 2009?