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Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, “Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND.”
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Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, “Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND.”
Not really, they are just regulating it. And a lot of those countries already had really well-developed metro systems, and micromobility and rental transport options have still taken off. Driverless cars haven’t because of the GDPR barrier that even brings up the legality of dashcam video usage in some of its countries, so basically only those with the hefty Euro parliament lobbyists like Tesla are allowed to some degree.
the main reason driverless cars haven’t taken off in Europe is that European road safety regulators require strong evidence that a technology is safe before it is used on roads, as opposed to the US, where new technology is largely allowed on roads by default until it kills enough people.
Things that aren’t a hazard, like automated delivery robots that go too slow to injure anyone, haven’t been allowed because of GDPR concerns, except within private property as waiter bots. In contrast, electric mobility solutions have spread all throughout the streets of Europe regardless of whether people leave them tossed in the street. But you make a good point, “safety regulators” requires another good set of lobbyists to push through.
GDPR doesn’t prevent you making a recording as a private citizen of a public space on a local device in the car with a 1 week rolling buffer.
Well, not spying on people is also an option
Because companies don’t ever lie about not preserving and selling their data they have recorded in public, specially that being used for research purposes meaning it is beneficial to keep it a long time even without an interest in spying? It’s going to require a lot of lobbyists to get the “official seals of approval” that prove automated vehicles aren’t spying, and that’s all that matters in that regard. Well, that, and not being embarrassed by immediate leaks of it.
Regulating in a manner to ban them. Driverless cars are not technologically ready right now. GDPR, is the bare minimum privacy protection, as a lot o citizens required.