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I have no idea how well such a system works, but, I found these lines pretty jarring:

> They found it fires on ordinary driving, not just distracted driving.

> Glance away from an empty highway to take in the scenery, or look at the infotainment screen to change a song, and the warning goes off anyway.

Like, isn't that the point, that if you aren't looking at the road it should go off?

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It's bad though because glancing at your side-view mirrors is good, but this will train drivers out of it by beeping at them because their eyes aren't perfectly forwards-facing.

It's an overly simplistic solution to a complex problem, that also coincidentally helps advance the surveillance state more than it does help prevent distracted driving.

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