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Wow, itās great to know that living in a police state with AI-enabled surveillance cameras and other privacy-infringing technology might have some (minor) benefits to the People. Maybe we should all re-read the book ā1984ā, before we welcome the idea of placing Flock cameras everywhere, remote communication and monitoring equipment in our vehicles, etc.
Thereās a huge difference between collecting data on individuals and Metadata. What is proposed in the article is Metadata. Metadata doesnāt collect data on individuals. It could care less. It collects crowd source data to find patterns and trends.
This isnāt anything new. I read an article about why during Covid that weather forecasting was not as accurate. Itās because they get a lot of data from Airlines - The data collected from the airplanes at different altitudes. The more data you have the more accurate the predictions. During the peak of Covid when air travel dropped to almost 0, they lost a significant amount of their data.
Traffic data is no different.
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This is the latestāalbeit very simplisticāversion.
I think that whoever thought this-up deserves points for creativity.
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An article in the latest Consumer Reports reported that drivers with insurance that monitors their driving pay lower premiums - probably because bad drivers donāt let their insurers monitor their driving. I tried to sign up for such a policy but my '87 pickup didnāt qualify.
That has been going on for years now alsoā¦ some, maybe more, only monitor your braking and acceleration, NOT how fast you are going, nor how fast you are corneringā¦ It does not monitor (well they probably do by now) if you are doing 70 in a 70 or 70 in a 30ā¦
But not quite fare, if you have to jam on the brakes cause some dumb a pulls out in front of you or runs a red light, it doesnāt know the differenceā¦ or didnāt used to anywayā¦ Now they can probably monitor every time you blink your eyesā¦ lol
It needs a way to monitor your driving. Only way I know of is through the OBD-II port. 87 pickup was long before OBD2.
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I meant it humorously - though I really would like an experience-based premium.