The biggest threat to stalking?

[Apthorpe]

eCall - Wikipedia

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VW, Audi and Skoda owners angry over fault in SOS warning system

eCall contacts emergency services in an accident – but it is causing problems for some drivers

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It's been delayed a bit later than I thought - to 2018, but cars made earlier could have it too.
The EU has reportedly claimed it will save 2,500 lives per year, yet a study has suggested that number is inflated around 50-fold and the benefits may be something like a 5% improvement - if the bureaucratic alert procedure works seamlessly every time. The benefits are spurious. The kit effectively has a SIM card, access to in-car microphone, and GPS. It has already been demonstrated that it can be used to immobilise moving cars remotely - or possibly control the engine, eavesdrop on passengers, track and monitor people and so on.
It is deeply sinister, not only from the perspective of state control, but also because hackers can use it.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

The biggest threat to stalking is Social media!

Its as simple as that.

 

[User00035]

Jag Land Rovers vision for the future is a fully autonomous vehicle, that you summon when required and is basically a taxi. There was huge investment and research into it when I was there 3 years ago. Can see it happening as the road network is not really fit for purpose and overcrowded.

Summon from where? If autonomous vehicles are not owned by the user and have to be brought to their location form some other place each time they are needed, that doubles the number of road journeys at a stroke.

 

[Jimbob39]

Summon from where? If autonomous vehicles are not owned by the user and have to be brought to their location form some other place each time they are needed, that doubles the number of road journeys at a stroke.

From a charging hub. The logic was that 90% of cars get used to go to work or shopping then sit parked for the majority of their life. Having a vehicle you call on when needed makes more sense that owning one to sit idle. That was the logic behind the project anyway! More like pods than cars!

 

[User00035]

Doesn't make much sense if you want to reduce overall road miles and congestion.
You summon a car/pod to your house from the hub. It takes you to work then returns to its hub. In the evening you call it out from its hub again to collect you from your place of work. It takes you home and then it goes back to its hub once more. That's six journeys where a private car owner would have made two.

 

[Apthorpe]

From a charging hub. The logic was that 90% of cars get used to go to work or shopping then sit parked for the majority of their life. Having a vehicle you call on when needed makes more sense that owning one to sit idle. That was the logic behind the project anyway! More like pods than cars!

What was used in reaching that conclusion was not logic, it was idiocy. Of course, cars sit parked for much of the time. You want one to get to and from work and everyone needs one at the same time then. The idea is that every journey can be made to happen when it suits the transport provider and the electricity grid regardless of the need for the economy to exist. It's completely mad.

If you had a proper algorithm for optimising car use, then it would create much more traffic on its own by moving cars to where it anticipates them being needed. Nothing will be improved from making people wait on pavements for cars that don't turn up, like rail passengers during a strike.

To the extent there's a problem with congestion, there are only two very simple causes:
1. The government has failed to build enough road infrastructure. I know people don't want the whole place covered in tarmac, but they should have thought of that before importing what is now 15 million extra people. There has been virtually no improvement in more than a generation,

2. Transport bureaucrats are focussed only on deterring and obstructing road transport, and robbing road users. We have ridiculously low speed limits across much of the country and endless schemes to make roads smaller and slower. Then they find it impossible to understand why there are zero productivity improvements in the economy.

Private transport is the biggest driver of improved citizens' standard of living in the history of the world. Undoing that would be catastrophic.

 

[glasshalffull]

I'd say bigger threat is getting younger ones away from the computer/phone/gaming screens and outdoors

 

[SussexSteve]

Probably start with the unvaccinated

 

[Apthorpe]

I'd say bigger threat is getting younger ones away from the computer/phone/gaming screens and outdoors

Yup. Have you seen the way the vegetables drive these days? Face in screen, having the car do all the thinking and crawling around at a snail's pace in some dinky-toy small SUV entirely oblivious to other road users. But they've passed through an entirely left-wing educational system and have been raised to desire slavery.

 

[Jimbob39]

What was used in reaching that conclusion was not logic, it was idiocy. Of course, cars sit parked for much of the time. You want one to get to and from work and everyone needs one at the same time then. The idea is that every journey can be made to happen when it suits the transport provider and the electricity grid regardless of the need for the economy to exist. It's completely mad.

If you had a proper algorithm for optimising car use, then it would create much more traffic on its own by moving cars to where it anticipates them being needed. Nothing will be improved from making people wait on pavements for cars that don't turn up, like rail passengers during a strike.

To the extent there's a problem with congestion, there are only two very simple causes:
1. The government has failed to build enough road infrastructure. I know people don't want the whole place covered in tarmac, but they should have thought of that before importing what is now 15 million extra people. There has been virtually no improvement in more than a generation,

2. Transport bureaucrats are focussed only on deterring and obstructing road transport, and robbing road users. We have ridiculously low speed limits across much of the country and endless schemes to make roads smaller and slower. Then they find it impossible to understand why there are zero productivity improvements in the economy.

Private transport is the biggest driver of improved citizens' standard of living in the history of the world. Undoing that would be catastrophic.

Couldn’t agree more! When the idea was launched to us we just sat in amazement, was it an April fools joke? On paper it probably seems a good idea, but in reality even autonomous cars are a bad idea on our infrastructure. Only today did my new Skoda decide to slam its brakes on at 50 because a leaf must have blown across the sensor! Good job there was no one behind me.

 

[Fadcode]

I think they have us over a barrel already, motoring will become too expensive to do, charging per mile driven, cost of electricity, restrictions in town centres, parking fees, highway robbery used to be a crime, but as most people entering Londinium now know it no longer is a crime , the cost to the Govt in the loss of fuel duty will need recuperating, and it will fall on the motorist to pay it somehow. The switch to personal contracts in buying cars, rather than HP, which means you never own the car, will meet the demand for the end of private transportation.
Best investing in Taxi firms, car hire firms, if you look at New York in the states, not many people own cars they use yellow taxis to get around, as its cheaper than paying the parking fees, and thats how it will be here, we need a revolution, to show Govts that our freedom is more valuable than their hare brained ideas.

 

[Freeforester]

It may never happen, but regardless it's a frightening insight as to how some government ministers view their position as a means to impose ever more draconian restrictions on we mere plebians

Might be time to vote for others, the type that serve, rather than rule the electorate. That would be a thing!

 

[enfieldspares]

Even in London, in most of the area, the public transport options are very limited, inefficient, too expensive and too slow, and they restrict people to only being able to act economically (work and spend) in very limited areas.

Yes. I worked in France for twenty years until 2019 and had an appartment in Paris for ten years. The transport was when I left in 2019 just 20 Euros for a one week pass covering all zones. So I could go as far North as Charles de Gaulle Airport and as far East as Fontainebleau and as far West as Versailles. A visitor for just 2.00 Euro could travel on a single trip from La Defense to Vincennes Chateau. And I got my dustbins emptied six days of the week.

 

[Cris]

Well its going to be interesting ordering an Uber to pick you up covered in mud, pxss and shxt, from a muddy field deep in the country away from civilisation with, gun, knife (bloody), stinking fallow buck in the rut. Oh and will the Uber driver have refigiration, carcase try and method to control of cross contamination to safely transpot said carcase to the Game Dealer?
If this was the case its not just stalking but anyone participating in any form of recerational activity involving vehiculare transport away from a town or city. Wont ever happen as it would not be in any political parties interests to turn the majority of citizens against them.

I dont doubt for a moment that there are extreamists who would not try this or advocate it, much like re wilding......

 

[Bowland blades]

No chance ! 20% vat plus other taxes to put a vehicle on the road , then the money generated within the economy? Nah !
Not in our lifetimes