Deleting Humanity in the Name of Safety
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Two years ago, I rented a Tesla Model 3 for 1 day in order to drive it for the first time in my life and make a Tesla review from the perspective of a petrolhead. I ended up actually enjoying the driving itself, I hated the user interface, the buttonless screens and probably most of all I hated the fact that the car was constantly beeping. When I went over the speed limit, when I changed lanes without signaling, when I got too close to the edge of the road and so on. After fiddling with the screen and the menus I managed to turn off almost all the beeping sources except one. There was one beep that stayed until the end and I couldn’t do anything about it. The car would beep randomly from time to time without any associated message or warning on the screen. I returned the car without figuring out what it is.
Two years later I have purchased this, a 2024 Toyota Prius and this car has finally resolved the mystery of what that annoying beeping was. But it has also taught me that I was extremely naive. You see back when I drove the Tesla I hated all the beeping and backseat driving the care was doing but I was foolish enough to believe that’s a Tesla-only thing because Tesla’s are obnoxious tech-obsessed cars for tech-obsessed people who actually hate driving. I thought Toyota is an old-school car brand and there’s no way it would beep and annoy me like that. Well, I was wrong, beeping and backstead driving is not a Tesla thing, it’s now an industry thing and this Toyota actually is the most annoying backseat driver I have seen in my life, and that includes humans. But the really scary thing is that I am now sure that all the intrusive driver “aids” we have in cars nowadays are the beginning of the end of humanity. I now this sounds extreme but please listen to my argument and then, if you can, prove me wrong.
Let’s go for a drive so that I can present my argument.
Observe, I am now about to come into a roundabout and as you will see the car will beep loudly at me and tell me how it has detected a traffic crossing. I want you to think for a moment, think about how idiotic and anti-safety this actually is. I am supposed to merge into a roundabout or go through an intersection. That is the situation when I want to keep my eyes on the road the entire time in order to accurately judge the situation and multiple other moving vehicles present. I need all my focus outside on the road. What possible use could I have from an image of a traffic crossing being displayed on the screen and a loud chime drawing my attention from the road to the screen. If you need a screen to tell you that you’re coming into a traffic crossing than I believe you should not be driving a car because you are a danger to yourself and others.
Here’s something else this car hates. Sunglasses. Whenever I put my sunglasses on it will tell me that driver monitor is unavailable because my face is obstructed. Ok, I’m fine being told that once so that I’m aware of it, but it will proceed to tell me this during the rest of the drive. Every couple of minutes. Sometimes it will forget and then display this message 3-4 times rapidly in a row. It will keep distracting me with this incredibly useless information unil I take my sunglasses off OR turn-off driver monitor. Unfortunately, I cannot turn off driver monitor while driving, I have to suffer until I am fully stopped and then I have to go here, long press ok, and then navigate here, enter and then turn off driver monitor. The sad fact is that I cannot turn off driver monitor permanently…..ever. Not even the dealership can do it. Driver monitor turns itself back on every time you turn the car off and on.
Driver monitor is actually just a bunch of sensors here in the steering wheel tracking your face and your eyes. And you can easily obstruct it by driving with your hand like this….however if you do that it will tell you to SIT UP. Just read this. Sit up. Imperative. No, please no nothing. Sit up human and let me collect your eye movement data so that I can train the next generation of self-driving cars. Oh, what do you mean what data, the data collection you agreed to when you started the car.
This is why you can’t turn driver monitor off permanently. It’s collecting your data in order to train the next generation of intrusive driver aids and/or self-driving aka autonomous driving vehicles.
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00:00 The Claim
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