New Speed cameras - see "inside your vehicle" ?

Hoenir

Long may the odds against drivers decrease. Tesla's are the new BMW's.  Full of idiots who think themselves to be Ayrton Senna. Seemingly unware of how reliant they are on the car rather than their own abilities. 

LightFlare

Hoenir said:

Long may the odds against drivers decrease. Tesla's are the new BMW's.  Full of idiots who think themselves to be Ayrton Senna. Seemingly unware of how reliant they are on the car rather than their own abilities. 

maybe not the best analogy considering.....although they might end up in the same way

Nasqueron

MouldyOldDough said:

Herzlos said:

I'm still baffled that people use mobile phones whilst driving, since I can't remember the last time I had a car without bluetooth and even my current one (which is far from high end) can read and reply to text messages.  

How does it know what to say?
I suppose mind control...... 

Many cars will use speech to text. My Mazda has custom responses you can select with a dial e.g. "I'm driving" or "I'm 20 minutes away" which you can edit when parked up if you wanted more specific ones e.g. I have one that says I'm on the way home from the gym and driving time as it's almost always the same. It disables the touch screen when driving and you cannot write a manual text letter by letter for obvious reasons

grumiofoundation

MouldyOldDough said:

The odds continue to drop against drivers.

Whilst I don't believe that these can see through metal - they claim to see "inside your car" ?

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/driving/2024-07/high-tech-new-speed-cameras-will-see-convictions-skyrocket/

Good 

Who wants people to be able to commit crimes and put other people lives at risk with no consequence? 

MouldyOldDough

Nasqueron said:

MouldyOldDough said:

Herzlos said:

I'm still baffled that people use mobile phones whilst driving, since I can't remember the last time I had a car without bluetooth and even my current one (which is far from high end) can read and reply to text messages.  

How does it know what to say?
I suppose mind control...... 

Many cars will use speech to text. My Mazda has custom responses you can select with a dial e.g. "I'm driving" or "I'm 20 minutes away" which you can edit when parked up if you wanted more specific ones e.g. I have one that says I'm on the way home from the gym and driving time as it's almost always the same. It disables the touch screen when driving and you cannot write a manual text letter by letter for obvious reasons

Aren't you limited as to how far you can drive by the phone cord ?

Also - using a phone dial "hands free ?" - how does that work ?

Don't tell me it's one of those modern push button ones ?

WellKnownSid

Hoenir said:

Long may the odds against drivers decrease. Tesla's are the new BMW's.  Full of idiots who think themselves to be Ayrton Senna. Seemingly unware of how reliant they are on the car rather than their own abilities. 

Made me laugh. My kids once came back from a friend’s house and told me the father was a formula one racing driver.  My reaction: “no, he’s a farmer - his sole racing driver qualification is that he owns a BMW which he blats around the local area like the complete duck that he is - he probably doesn’t even have a driving license - because he’s a farmer…” 🙄😄

Grumpy_chap

facade said:

You speak at it.

Loudly and clearly, enunciating each syllable

"Phone home" I say

What you should say to successfully complete that task is 

"Eee Tee"

  

WellKnownSid said:

My kids once came back from a friend’s house and told me the father was a formula one racing driver. 

That has to be true on some occasions.

Nigel Mansell owned a house on the same estate as my parent's before he became famous and kept that house for a good number of year afterwards, though I think it had, by then, just become a house not main home.

Herzlos

MouldyOldDough said:

Herzlos said:

I'm still baffled that people use mobile phones whilst driving, since I can't remember the last time I had a car without bluetooth and even my current one (which is far from high end) can read and reply to text messages.  

How does it know what to say?
I suppose mind control...... 

Being Glaswegian, it's pretty time consuming and involves a bit of shouting.

It can read a text out loud, and can use voice commands / speech to text to dictate it. In reality it goes something like:

Car: "Message from wife. Can you get milk on way home. Do you want to reply?"

Me: "Yes".

...

...

Me: "YES!"

Car: "What is your message?"

Me: "What kind of milk?"
Car: "I got: What candle of elk, do you want to send?"

Me: "Cancel"

silverwhistle

facade said:

(But it does a reasonable job of reading them out, and you can reply to them if you don't mind causing offence when it translates "Thank you" into "#@!!! you")

Doesn't the phone learn from previous experience of what it has heard?