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Comment Re:test drive? (Score 1) 248

One day these countries will have a leader like trump and there will be no turning back because a domestic intelligence apparatus dwarfing anything the nazis or soviets could dream of will already be in place. Right now some unknowable percent of the us government is getting blackmailed but at at the very least included lindsey graham.

But whatever go ahead and think I'm one of these old guys who wants kids riding their bikes and drinking out of garden hoses.

Comment Re:test drive? (Score 1) 248

There's just no acceptable risk of death in the minds of many. Highways are safer than ever and now we're worried about an edge case because we see it in action movies. Human life and children are suddenly important when there's some psying to do, or some boots to put to faces but look around, the second anyone is making a few cents more the value of human life goes to shit,

You just seem like a guy who has never had to experience a moment of danger in his life. Not saying it's great but please give me some stats about people hanging upside down knocked out. There isn't one but it's the edge case cited for putting a tracking device on everyone so there SHOULD be data out there.

Comment Re:test drive? (Score 1) 248

The point is they should feel safe enough with a cell phone if they saw life go on while having to depend on the less than steller CB, which most people didn't even give a fuck enough to own.

This is all about the one in a million possibility that you're knocked out hanging over a bridge which is laughably unlikely action movie bullshit. This is the same as when americans carry guns around everywhere except the macho posturing.

Comment Re:test drive? (Score 3, Interesting) 248

You're usually pretty bright so i can't see how you'd imagine someone wouldn't want to disable it given the context of the discussion and the fact you're old enough to remember a time when people used CBs and ham radios with autopatch for automotive emergencies because cell phones were so expensive.

Like it's just not necessary and is used to show you ads. Also it"s nice to have the option to not involve the authorities, emergencies can be unexpectedly complex by nature and in the USA at least, I think those sorts of situations outnumber the type where you're knocked out hanging over the side of a bridge or whatever.

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