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Cars Are Fast Becoming Dystopian PRISON PODS. Now you can’t even glance away from the AI cameras without ever increasing AI verbal torture.

Posted by freedomforall 6 days, 22 hours ago to Government
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"The surveillance state has found its newest frontier: your car’s dashboard. What used to be a symbol of American freedom and independence is rapidly morphing into a high-tech cage that watches your every move and can override your decisions at will.

In a widely shared post on X, users detailed complaints pouring in about Subaru’s upgraded AI ‘EyeSight’ system now featured on the latest models.

Drivers report the system pouncing on brief glances away from the road – while Biden-era federal mandates prepare to make this level of surveillance mandatory in every new vehicle by 2027."
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SOURCE URL: https://modernity.news/2026/05/16/cars-are-fast-becoming-dystopian-prison-pods/

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  • Posted by fairbro 5 days ago
    I rented a new car at Enterprise. Every time I came near the center line or the right line, the steering wheel jerked in my hands. "Fighting" the car took all the pleasure out the driving experience.
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    • Posted by mccannon01 4 days, 4 hours ago
      Ditto! Even worse is the sudden (and frighting) beeping and red dash light flashing for no apparent reason - oh wait, maybe the driver in the other lane was checking her cell phone and veered a couple of inches - nope, that wasn't it. I totally HATED the engine shut off at every stop "feature" while crawling in heavy traffic in Phoenix. Glad that thing was a rental so I left all that crap alone, but I will not buy a vehicle that such "features" can't be shut off.
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      • Posted by fairbro 4 days ago
        At the gas station, I looked for the button to open the gas cap. Not in the door, nope, not on the dash, no, not alongside the seat. Frustrated, was finally about to ask someone when I discovered it's the old-fashioned press-on-one-side-and-it-opens type!
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        • Posted by mccannon01 3 days, 4 hours ago
          Oh gosh, that's funny as you never know where the darn thing is. I rented one small car where it was low on the dash but located such that the steering wheel blocked it from view when in the driver seat. I pulled up to the pump and looked for the button to no avail. I found it by getting out of the car and bending way down to see it. No such luck having a press-to-open fuel door - I HAD to find the darn button, LOL.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 6 days, 4 hours ago
    Ka-ching ka-ching making an already overpriced planned obsolete item even more expensive. I've seen a couple of videos on this. The busy body control freaks are taking more and more and more. I guess you'd have to wear a burka to start your car or cruise down a street looking for an address. Just call me "Winston" (1984).
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 days, 21 hours ago
    Having just celebrating my 89th birthday I laughed when a friend asked me how I reduced the electric bill in my apartment from $150 a month to $82 a month. I was amazed to reveal to her if I wasn't in a room the lights were not left on! Duh!!!
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  • Posted by Ben_C 4 days, 23 hours ago
    Remind me to keep my Lincoln 2013 MKX with 170K miles that has no problems. Have an awesome deanship that that care of the car.
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  • Posted by JohnRandALL 5 days, 12 hours ago
    Subaru's Eyesight program uses two cameras mounted by the rear view mirror to monitor how close to other vehicles, and staying in lane. Separate from that program is a facial recognition program called the Driver Focus Mitigation System. It registers up to five people, automatically adjusts seating and other settings to the individual upon recognition, and also alerts if it notices the person not keeping eyes on the road. I know, I just purchased a Subaru Legacy, one of the last made before they quit making them last Fall. The Eyesight seems to work well, but I so far refuse to activate the facial recognition program.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 days, 21 hours ago
    Wow! I love my new Ford SUV. It won't let your car move if all the doors aren't closed properly. And it stopped my car when a crazy driver dashed out of a parking lot and missed my front bumper by two inches. 3 friends were almost killed recently when a drunk driver coming out of a parking lot running a red light drunk hit their car so hard the engine wound up in their laps. They are surviiving slowly. nb
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  • Posted by katrinam41 2 days, 13 hours ago
    Keeping my 2005 F150 for as long as I can keep it running! My daughter-in-law has a Fiesta that locks all doors when the driver leaves the car. She never moves until her keys are in hand! Curse the Cash for Clunkers!
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    Posted by LarryHeart 4 days, 21 hours ago
    I have a lifetime membership in Satellite Radio based on my current car. This new government meddling and surveillance gives another reason to keep my car as long as humanly possible.

    I would press our President Trump and the one or two intelligent Politicians left up in swamp land to make these new "Features" optional or opt-in. European cars should follow our guidelines.
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  • Posted by Eyecu2 4 days, 21 hours ago
    This largely explains my thinking in recently buying myself a 95 2500 RAM 4x4. Nothing electronic about it.
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    • Posted by $ Snezzy 3 days, 20 hours ago
      92 D250 Cummins. 93 D350 Cummins. 87 D150. Have never driven any car newer than 2013.

      I think it was a 1947 Popular Mechanics issue that promised we would soon have flying cars. Where's mine? I want a flying car.

      PS: The D350 needs a replacement transmission. Any suggestions?
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