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If only there were other ways of tracking and observing vehicle behavior. And some reliable way of identifying vehicles themselves. Or ways that we could automate this with computers to sort through.

But that's just science fiction. Cars are just going to be cars!



Kinda funny how the HN crowd can both decry and advocate for automated mass surveillance at the same time.


Is this the first time you have encountered a community made up of individuals with different opinions?


The HN crowd wouldn't see the tounge in cheek humor if it hit them in the face.

Vehicles have these things called license plates and take a license to operate. It's not dystopian mass surveillance or a technical challenge to have a camera assigning tickets for operating machinery dangerously in public spaces.


Not funny -- terrifying.

In Texas, traffic cameras that automatically issue tickets are illegal. Courts ruled they violate the constitutional right to face your accuser. And look, that's how it should be.

And I certainly don't want my own car, phone, or anything else I own snitching on me while I drive.


Kinda more dystopian the ads have better tracking of us than law enforcement.


Yes. This. Or that the advertising is the driving force behind surveillance tech


It sounds like you have a problem with the police, ok? Step outside please.




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