Comment on Llaneli man reached 140mph to 'get to gym after argument' and hit taxi
Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bit of a tangent, don’t know what happened here, but risk taking behaviour is often associated with suicidality.
I’m not alone in thinking that a lot of suicide attempts, conscious or unconscious, fly under the radar because they happen in traffic.
It’s weird how if someone’s suffering mental health issues, we wouldn’t leave them alone with a knife or enough medication to overdose on, but will leave them a set of car keys.
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
ah yes fully self driving cars so they can actually control where you can and can’t go, no flock surveillance needed👍🏻
Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I mean, I take the bus and occasional taxi, fundamentally not that different. Especially now that that’s increasingly difficult if not impossible to do with cash.
Also, unlike the US most modern cars in Europe already have tracking and monitoring included with eCall, that automatically sends your GPS location to emergency services. Ie. the police can track you at all times anyway.
Are you American? The UK doesn’t have flock AFAIK. There’s already a much larger network of CCTV, facial recognition vans, license plate scanners, and the like which are being supplemented by palantir contracts as we speak. This has been a thing for decades now.
You’re shit out of luck already in the UK, unless you cycle everywhere and dress appropriately.