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    Your Volvo Will Soon Call The Cops On You If It Thinks You've Been Drinking

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...-been-drinking

    Call it a mix between an auto pilot and big brother.

    Volvo has always been synonymous with safety in the automobile world. Now, the Swedish automaker is taking drastic steps to push the borders between "safety" and "big brother" with proactive safety systems in its vehicles. These systems will soon take control of your car if the notice what they "judge" to be an impaired or distracted driver.

    To achieve this control over incapacitated drivers, Volvo soon equip its cars with cameras to monitor and evaluate the responsiveness of drivers, in what the automaker is positioning as a hope to combat against drunk and distracted drivers. If a driver is deemed impaired, the vehicle's autonomous safety systems will intervene on various levels and also "call the authorities", according to Motor 1 .

    Henrik Green, senior vice president for research and development at Volvo said: “When it comes to safety, our aim is to avoid accidents altogether rather than limit the impact when an accident is imminent and unavoidable. In this case, cameras will monitor for behaviour that may lead to serious injury or death.”

    The company hasn't released specific details on how the cameras will work yet. The vehicle will also "monitor steering input and recognize excessive weaving or wandering." If the vehicle senses a distracted or impaired driver, it could limit the car’s speed and even bring the car to a stop in a safe manner autonomously.

    Interior facing cameras are currently only available on a couple of vehicles, including Teslas and select vehicles by Mazda and Subaru, among a few others. The data from cameras is generally run through image recognition software to try and determine whether or not a driver is paying attention, looking at their cell phone, or perhaps even getting sleepy.

    Volvo has plans to implement the cameras on its cars in the early 2020s.

    Back in January, we wrote an article saying that cars would "soon be monitoring their drivers and selling the data they collect".

    A report by Reuters noted that at CES in Las Vegas this year, start up companies were looking to demonstrate to automakers how their technology gathers data on drivers – all in the name of enhanced safety purposes.

    It is unclear if demand for Volvos will collapse as a result of big brother watching over every move, or if potential customers will welcome this latest incursion of their privacy, boosting sales.

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    Either this will fail completely...

    Or it will be a great success because insurance companies give severely reduced rates for people who like to bend over...

    I think it's good to keep people safe but I never want to own anything that will call the cops without my permission.
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    John Spartan: you are fined three credits for violation of the Verbal Morality Code.

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    More self-righteous corporate pricks trying to nanny everyone. Yay. $#@! Volvo.
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    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to DamianTV again.


    They'll just start shutting down our cars eventually, prove your innocence.
    They'll probably get to the point of impounding them and applying asset forfeiture.


    60% of fatalities are from sober drivers, they're trying shift that over to calling them 'distracted'
    drivers, but more often then not they're just driving like jerks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCTelander View Post
    More self-righteous corporate pricks trying to nanny everyone. Yay. $#@! Volvo.
    “But it’s OK because it’s not government...”
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    The data from cameras is generally run through image recognition software to try and determine whether or not a driver is paying attention, looking at their cell phone, or perhaps even getting sleepy.
    That’s my pet peeve. Almost every car that I pass that is driving erratically has a driver looking at or typing on their cell phone. Stop lights are the worse. The lead car doesn’t go when the light changes half the time because they are looking at their phone. At busy intersections, it often causes about half the cars to miss the light.
    "Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
    "Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
    "Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    John Spartan: you are fined three credits for violation of the Verbal Morality Code.
    You are fined 12 credits for impersonating a morality officer.
    A savage barbaric tribal society where thugs parade the streets and illegally assault and murder innocent civilians, yeah that is the alternative to having police. Oh wait, that is the police

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCTelander View Post
    More self-righteous corporate pricks trying to nanny everyone. Yay. $#@! Volvo.
    But, Corporations are People! And people (not corporate people) should obey Corporations! After all, profits are more important than anything! And all those discounts get paid for somehow!
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

    Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled

    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Our central bank is not privately owned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    “But it’s OK because it’s not government...”
    Not true.
    the vehicle's autonomous safety systems will intervene on various levels and also "call the authorities", according to Motor 1 .
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Rebel Poet View Post
    Not true.
    But the Kops didn't spy on you, Volvo sent them an anonymous tip.
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