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Normies get scammed on Discord into pasting commands into their browser console.

As a pedestrian I prefer for most people to not have root access to their multi-ton fast-moving killing machine.

Agrred, but it is remote root access is the danger, they already have root access to the physical dangerous things.

That is blatant whataboutism. Stop performing mental gymnastics and accept that what you personally want is not what’s good for society as a whole.

It's not whataboutism, it's a legitimate question. How does it increase safety on the road to reject local SSH connections by a dumb user, when that same user can mess with the car physically?

Simplest example: a driver could probably disable attentive driving checks by pasting a script in from a web search in a few minutes. Nothing like an inattentive 3750 lbs weapon.

A driver could also install a little machine that turns the wheel slightly at regular intervals, to the same effect.

Yeah and they could hire a professional driver or a engineer and IPO for billions a life sized driving AI powered crypto robot too. Look, like clearly google + ctrl-v scripting or running an one click deployment exe on your computer on a whim is different than physically ordering/picking up something and then installing it into a vehicle?

Of course they're different, but you're trying to argue that the former takes objectively less effort than the latter, and it doesn't. One or the other may take less effort depending on who you are and what you know.

I've heard multiple people claim an ankle weight on the steering wheel is sufficient for hands-free driving.

Actively combated by Tesla as they detect it also. They actively apply patches to try and detect things like this and block it.

Which would get you in trouble if you were to be pulled over by the police at any moment.

How does adding another way to cause safety issues affect safety?

Give me root access so i can install openclaw.

IMO most of the things people would want to paste commands into their car for are just valueless rent-seeking.

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