Subj : RE: 2026 Infrastructure Bill in US; self-driving+
To   : paulie420
From : Blue White
Date : Sun Jun 04 2023 07:46 am

 pa> Possibly... what if yer on your property of 100 acres, been
 pa> drinking heavily and your wife has a heart attack - you have to get
 pa> them to the edge of your gated property to meet the ambulance. Or,
 pa> a myriad of other scenarios. This, also, doesn't account for the
 pa> data collection side of things and where that data is being
 pa> collected and whom has access to it - it all just stinks to hell.
 
Something I had forgotten (maybe because I was still pretty young and 
we didn't have new cars) was that back in the 1970's/early '80's when 
they were pushing seat belts, there were cars that had some automated 
gizmos to quasi-force drivers to use their belts.
 
I do remember the ones that auto retracted when you opened and closed 
the front doors.  What I did not remember, or know, is that some of
the cars would not start if they sensed that the driver was in the
car but not belted in.
 
I remember how the retracting ones were a bother enough if you were
simply trying move the car in and out of a garage, but I can't
imagine what it would have been like to have one tied to the ignition 
just so you could start it while, say working on it.
 
While looking up articles about the alcohol detection, I read a
couple of articles that mentioned that these seat belt detector
schemes were failure-prone and lead to a lot of stranded drivers. 
Car companies supposedly want to avoid a repeat of the seat belt
detector fiasco.
 

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