I'm buying a new car right now and I hadn't realized how bad things have gotten in the EU.
Every new car now has to ship with "Intelligent Speed Assistance" and "Advanced Driver Distraction Warning". It sound reasonable, but in practice they're implemented soo badly.
I tested a new Toyota. The speed assistance beeps at you the moment you go 1 km/h over the limit, which every driver knows happens from time to time. I set cruise control to 50 and it still beeped when we hit a hill or went over a bump and drifted to 51. This happened all the time.
The distraction warning is even worse. It scans your face to check you're paying attention, and it's full of false alarms. On a completely empty road you can't even glance at the scenery around you. Have you ever taken a road trip?!
I get that we want safer roads, but this isn't the way. Make people responsible for their actions instead. Speeding? - pay a real fine, or lose your license. Don't meddle with everyone's driving in real time.
Same pattern from #EU as #DigitalID and Chat Control. Forced on everyone, badly built, no opt-out.
These technologies should be optional, properly tested, and actually improved before they're mandatory. Not forced onto us.