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This is why we invented the fine print.

Not putting this information in the fine print is fraudulent behaviour

There are limits to what can be put into the fine print as well. We probably need to revisit though rules, but you can't get away with anything just by putting it in the fine print.

It was most likely in the specs from the beginning. You can't have busses roaming around with no way to turn them off remotely.

Can't you? And who should have that power? I believe that this is the concern.

Yes, those wild buses on the loose have been a major problem

Kinda explains why nothing is being done in Poland about hunters accidently killing lots of people, mistaking them for boars. If you crack down on hunters, you can't have them control the population of wild buses.

I’m pretty sure turning off the bus is something the bus driver can do. It’s not like buses were wildly roaming around before cellular networks were invented…

What? That's the way it's always been.

Do you imagine some benevolent authority sits in your town with a finger on the kill switch for every vehicle in motion?

If it were in the specs from the beginning, there would be no issue. This isn't a "click here to accept" thing; multiple people scan the technical data in these projects.

"You can't have busses roaming around with no way to turn them off remotely."

Hm? Not a single bus on the road in my city can be turned off remotely. There's never been one ever, since bus transport started. So why should, no, must, that be a feature of new buses?

Why do you think that they can't be turned off remotely? They all have over the air updates. Just push the update the bricks the bus.

Look at what I replied to. The claim was "You can't have [buses] roaming around with no way to turn them off remotely". As if there's some general rule or agreement that it MUST be possible to turn buses off remotely. What I stated was that of course there's no such mandate.

And when I said "Not a single bus on the road in my city can be turned off remotely", that's the truth. They can't. They're all diesel, so there's not even a remote possibility of a hidden esim-powered switch.

Why did the post I replied to claim that it must be possible for buses? And why did you assume that I meant something else, and that all buses are electric?

Edit: Typo

Better than a bus that are blown up if it goes under 50 mph.

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