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All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes (allaboutcookies.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1247209/all-cars-sold-in-the-eu-now-require-a-camera-aimed-at-your-face-its-still-not-clear-wher

Starting July 7, 2026, every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face. Glance at your phone, your kids in the back seat, or the radio for too long, and the car will flash a warning light and sound an alert.

Automakers have known this was coming for years. What they, and EU regulators, have never spelled out is what happens to that footage after the alert goes off.

While the intention behind the new system is difficult to dispute, its implementation has raised several concerns. Early real-world testing suggests the distraction warnings can be overly sensitive and potentially distracting.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 16 points 1 month ago (7 children)

This was on the news today on tv and they showed a camera filming the driver, watching his upper body.

I bought a car from 2023 without all this shit so I'm very happy. Newer electric cars also beep when you go over the speed limit, which would drive me nuts.

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

My car shortly beeps 3x every time I go over speed limit. So I'm punished when I try to maintain speed limit and going 2kmph over triggers the beep. So I just constantly go 10kmph over now and I get those 3 beeps just for the first time I cross over the speed limit.

The beep is tied to the road sign monitoring setting so I have to turn off both, not just beeping. So then I don't get signs displayed on my dash board which can be actually useful sometimes.

[–] WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

May I suggest adaptive speed control.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Don't you know how roads work? Different speeds, situations, city traffic? Any of this rings a bell?

[–] WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I do. Highway is a solved problem with issues remaining. City traffic, I dont dare to claim solved but Chinese cars seem.pretty darn close. Accidents? Always. I trust it more than myself and I consider myself (as most people) way above average.

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