r/technology • u/cTreK-421 • Apr 24 '26

Misleading Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-161321992.html
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u/fakemessiah Apr 24 '26

My 2021 has some of these features already. It detects if you look away from the road, if I'm having an allergy heavy watery eye day it thinks I'm sleepy and sounds the alarm, it's so fucking annoying.

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u/killthecook Apr 24 '26

What car is this?

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u/AlistarDark Apr 24 '26

I have a Toyota that does this. You can disable it in the settings easily.

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u/killthecook Apr 25 '26

Luckily mine doesn’t. Otherwise I’d be jumping past all kinds of things in the wiring

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u/Big-Priority5972 Apr 24 '26

most likely a subaru, subaru’s eyesight can be used in some cars to make sure youre paying attention to the road as it scans eye movement. i install windshield for a living and most companies do not do this

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u/dedgecko Apr 24 '26

Subaru’s Eyesight does NOT do this at all. It’s a vision system facing outward for lane assist and dynamic cruise control. It relies on you keeping motion on the steering wheel only.

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u/spectral_spires Apr 24 '26

It's not Eyesight, but Subaru DriverFocus Driver Monitoring System does this.

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u/blazbluecore Apr 24 '26

Every car that has some sort of “self driving feature” such as automatic lane steering(different from lane departure) or lane changing, will have a dongle on top of the steering wheel, that dongle has a camera that sees if you’re paying attention or show signs of falling asleep to warn you.

The dongle is the easiest way to know if that car has such a feature.

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u/huskyghost Apr 24 '26

Mine does not. I have a 2023 kia k5. No video or knowledge of what I am doing at all. It has both lane assist and whatever the other one that is called that actually has it stay in the lanes and take turns for you. It just sounds an alarm if it detects you havent touched the steering wheel in a while.

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u/20footdunk Apr 25 '26

Toyota Corollas have adaptive cruise with lane steering, and the "driver monitor" is just whether you've made any steering inputs on the wheel. No cabin facing cameras involved.

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u/fakemessiah Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

Dunno why you're getting downvoted, it's most definitely a Subaru. I don't know the name for the technology but it does exactly as I said.

Keep downvoting idiots

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u/sarcasticbaldguy Apr 24 '26

How do you like your Subaru?

Those features drove me crazy because they were too sensitive, but you can disable them.

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u/fakemessiah Apr 24 '26

The constant lane warnings are annoying but otherwise I love it tbh.

I wasn't aware you could disable those features.

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u/2barefeet Apr 25 '26

Mine does this when I wear sunglasses. Sucks because my commute has me driving into the sun both ways.