The EU now requires infrared cameras in all new cars to monitor driver distraction. One speaker argues the rule is pointless: a 2011 BlackBerry outage saw traffic accidents drop 40%, proving distraction matters, but autonomous vehicles will make driver monitoring obsolete before this law even takes effect.
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As of July 7th, every single new car and van sold in European Union is legally required to have an infrared camera pointed directly at the driver's face. It's going to track your eyes, your head, your gaze in real time. Every time that you drive, it's called the Advanced Driver Distraction Warning System.
Okay, so by 2038, they're going to save 25,000 lives, right? You know, I want to go back to a statistic because the problem is actually quite real. And it'll go back to 2011 when BlackBerry had a 3-day data outage around the world. Nobody could send BlackBerry messages. The accident rate dropped 40% during those 3 days. Okay, showing that like, oh, well, a huge number of accidents, people texting and driving. So we're like 15 years late in applying something like this. Number 2 problem, by the time you get around to even beginning to think about implementing this law, we're gonna have full self-driving cars that you don't need a driver anyway. So the entire thing is redundant. This is legislation theater of the ultimate level because they're not seeing where technology's going. They're projecting forward from where we are. 25,000 lives is the dumbest thing you could ever think about. You should be looking at things that affect millions and billions of lives. Yeah. And, and if you wanted legislation, legislate a requirement for full self-driving. That's the direction they should be going in. Push technology to automate the problem rather than trying to fix the damn issue in, in the wrong way.
