So they do sync it up to make me hit every single red light if I’m running late for work in the morning and speeding! /s

I bet it would be hard being a paranoid schizophrenic right now in this surveillance state that’s being manufactured.

Or maybe its liberating since it would all be true “See, I told you the television was listening to our conversations! Here’s an article about it in The NYT”

Wait until these kind of metrics of “rewardable” and “punishable” drivers shows up on your car insurance rates.

There’s always a dollar to be made with all this data they are harvesting and this is just a small beginning of a series of steps that are playing out far faster than I had ever dreamed they would.

Edit: you know I just thought about how it said begins rewarding drivers. That means they had to test this out for at the very least several months of getting all the data of “bad” and “good” drivers.

I seriously wonder what else they’ve tested out like that with traffic and whatnot. Mixed in with the surveillance in new vehicles 2027 and onward and this is going to get pretty wild

There’s too frequently a mismatch between the speed communicated by road design, versus that dictated by a sign. Mechanisms like this overwrite the driver’s intuition, which can only lead to more frustration. Sure, there are incompetent drivers on the road, but that doesn’t mean you have to micromanage the fleet in its entirety. There’s plenty that have a functional brain and are more than competent enough to assess a given situation, irrespective of what a fixed speed limit might indicate. And if drivers used to speed to catch green, that indicates to me the waiting cycles must not have been optimized; and doing so possibly yielding the same result.

Aint the surveillance state s’wonderful?