• GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    4 months ago

    the camera will ding you for distracted driving

    Oh of course, it’s the camera doing this. The camera is the bad guy. Not the people who designed, approved, and implemented this. Totally not their fault. Not their responsibility. They are powerless against the might of the camera that they designed, approved, paid for, and implemented.

    The sane response to this would be “oh shit, we’d better fix that”. Instead they blame the tech.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 months ago

      The problem is that the goal is micromanaging people with automated processes. Probably the thinking was that drivers shouldn’t be having conversations while driving, and it’s easy to detect mouth movement from the camera feed, so just automatically punish them for mouth movement, and make it the job of someone who has no control over that to explain why.

      There isn’t a response because the system was designed to be an entirely top down clockwork mechanism where comfort and fairness for its human components is a very low priority, their problem to deal with, and feedback is blocked.