• dhork@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      You realized you just proved my point. “We already have nannies for X, why not for Y” leads quickly to “Why not have nannies in all cars”, and then to “We have nannies in all the cars why can’t we turn off cars with criminals in them?”.

      Can you imagine how much worse things could be if Trump’s gestapo could disable cars remotely?

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        4 hours ago

        And yet they’re talking about a nanny as a local device temporarily attached to a car and that does not necessarily “phone home”. Not everything is a “slippery slope”

        And yes, speed governors were all too common after the 1970s fuel crisis. As far as I know they still are on trucks, like rental moving trucks. This is not a new thing, except to allow a court to mandate it for repeat egregious offenders