I think it's early to be adding stuff like that to government mandated driving tests when these cars are only theoretically available to the ever dwindling middle class and above. Unless my circumstances change there's no chance I'll be in one for at least 10-15 years.
I wonder, how does the autopilot safety record compare to driving in similar conditions to those which AP is typically used (open highway, good weather).
"Most people today regard America’s experiment with alcohol prohibition as a national embarrassment, rightly repealed in 1933. So it will be with the closures and lockdowns of 2020-21, someday. "
I don't think so.
Everyone seems to forget that the purpose of the lockdown was to make time to prepare enough ventilators for those that the disease would effect seriously. It definitely went on for way longer than it needed to I'm not complaining.
I also think the whole covid experience has had an overall positive effect on society. It has been a negative effect for people like landlords or businesses owners who exploited their employees.
Things have been shaken up, and the situation is still developing from that input.
This is exactly how I feel to a T. It's intangible to explained but I'm not a criminal and I'm not on probation. Apple as zero business scanning my phone for anything and I don't want that to be done.
Authoritarianism doesn't only swing in the liberal direction. Until the last generation most authoritarian policies were of the conservative sort.
And with regards to this specific debate, being tough on crime and (largely unnecessary conspiracy level) fear over pedophilia are both conservative darlings.
The 2nd amendment has typically been the only love of conservatives.
Where were they when the police illegally searched us in dozens of ways, or when free speech was limited to easy to ignore "free speech zones"?
They've only clamoured to defend free speech once the right to freely abuse weaker social classes was at risk of being taken away.
So how are we going to stop this if it becomes a reality for 99% of phones sold?
I'm very poor- like on and off homeless poor- and I would be willing to pay up to $200 for a free phone, but I couldn't go higher. I dearly hope that it doesn't become the case that any "free" phone isn't a luxury like current privacy oriented phones.
"You should have control over your own computers. Your phone should be your castle. True control means controlling your hardware and software. It means picking hardware that doesn’t depend on absolute trust in a vendor for its security, but gives you control over your own security so you don’t have to ask the vendor’s permission to use the computer how you wish. It means using a free operating system that lets you install whatever software you want and remove any software you don’t."
Has this ever been the case
even since the very beginning of smartphones?
I personally think the only way to handle climate change will be to force the more selfish US citizens to change their lifestyles. Just being realistic I don't think they will change without a civil war type scenario. Or the threat of a war.
They won't listen unless they are forced to. Period.