That’s pretty lame. Fast cars can be fun to drive, and the acceleration is the fun part, not their top speed or whatever. Note that this limit they’re proposing is more of an annoyance - it’s something you have to manually disable each time you start the car. It’s the same frustrating nonsense we saw with mandatory start stop that you cannot disable permanently.
Other parts of the proposal relating to better battery safety and warnings on battery issues seem like a positive change.
But then there’s this:
> The draft also addresses driver assistance systems, requiring vehicles with such features to verify through biometric recognition or account login that drivers have completed proper training before allowing continued operation.
This just looks like a surveillance tool. Soon we’re going to see cars normalizing facial recognition and uploads of that information. In China, this will be abused by the CCP for all their usual oppressive stuff. But I worry that this will become normal in cars sold elsewhere too.
That’s pretty lame. Fast cars can be fun to drive, and the acceleration is the fun part, not their top speed or whatever. Note that this limit they’re proposing is more of an annoyance - it’s something you have to manually disable each time you start the car. It’s the same frustrating nonsense we saw with mandatory start stop that you cannot disable permanently.
Other parts of the proposal relating to better battery safety and warnings on battery issues seem like a positive change.
But then there’s this:
> The draft also addresses driver assistance systems, requiring vehicles with such features to verify through biometric recognition or account login that drivers have completed proper training before allowing continued operation.
This just looks like a surveillance tool. Soon we’re going to see cars normalizing facial recognition and uploads of that information. In China, this will be abused by the CCP for all their usual oppressive stuff. But I worry that this will become normal in cars sold elsewhere too.