Erik King staring at a dude. Top text: "Me", bottom text: "The new car I just bought (in the EU)"
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[–] 34 points 4 months ago (11 children)

This https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/safer-cars-safer-roads-new-rules-take-effect-2026-07-08_en does not explicitly mention "camera", like most news articles does, but I guess the points

Advanced driver distraction warning system to keep drivers focused

and

Better forward vision

are a bit hard to implement without camera + computer vision.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    But there is no requirement to send that data anywhere

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

    Automakers collect and store all data by default. If there's no law saying they CAN'T collect it then they're gonna collect it.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    Data is a valuable commodity. I think one car company filed a patent not long ago for a system that listens to conversations in the car and then serves advertisements on the central console based on those.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago*

    I recently watched a few videos about people taking the modems/WiFi boxes out of their new cars to stop the constant data collection.
    On one of the videos there's a warning that if you attach your phone to your car then the car will almost certainly start to contact through the BT to 'phone home' again to send data that way.

    I've got no idea if any of it is all true, but with today's data collection companies mining everything they can then I can easily believe it.

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