DITCHED: The New Racist Car

[Australian rePublic]

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Okay, so since this thread has made its way back into discussion, I thought I would try my hand at making word “Aftokinita Tou Laou” is Greek for “the People’s Car” which is what “Volkswagen” means, as Volkwagen had ties to a certain moustached Austrian painter


[title] The New Racist Car
[validity] must have cars, must have police, must be capitalist, must have auto manufacturing

[desc] Aftokinita Tou Laou (ATL), an @@ANIMAL@@ City based car manufacturer, implemented biometric technology into their vehicles, which has allegedly been locking ethnic minorities out of their cars

[option] "This is extremely racist" complains John "Crazyblox" Pennyslow, a well-known Bigtopian rights activist. "I tried to enter my ATL Supreme Vroom 3000, before the vehicle started sounding an alarm and called the police! I mean, granted, there were two cherry red ATL Supreme Vroom 3000s in that car park, and I tried to enter the wrong one, but still, the response wouldn't have been as extreme if I were an ethnic @@DENONYM@@! This is blatant racism and us ethnic minorities shouldn't put up with it!"

[effect] the police are not allowed to assume that ethnic minorities caught in the act are thieves

[option] "Cars are chunks of metal that go vroom vroom. Chunks of metal that go vroom vroom are incapable of racism," sighs @@RANDOMNAME@@, CEO of ATL, whilst showing you the features of the Supreme Vroom 4000 that @@HE@@ inexplicably drove into your office. "Our software wouldn't assume that they were thieves if they didn't go around stealing ever... I mean, look @@LEADER@@, we have our duty to our customers to prevent theft. If this leads to a few ethnic minorities having the police called on them, then what can we do about it?"

[effect] according to biometrics one's skin colour determines their likelihood of being a thief

[option] "This is bad @@LEADER@@!" explains @@RANDOMNAME@@, your minister of commerce, showing you the latest export statistics, "If Bigwigs think that our cars are racist, we're not going to tap the Bigtopian market. Who really cares what happens domestically? I don't care what the case is with our domestic market, but we need to convince the Bigtopian market that we're sending them different vehicles, specifically for their market!"

[effect] the government is more concerned with protecting the rights of foreign ethnic minorities than their own

[Australian rePublic]

Bump

[Kractero]

The fact that the actual story of the issue is that an ethnic minority is trying to enter the wrong car takes away from the fact that the car biometric system itself might be discriminating against ethnic minorities, because the alarm would have been called regardless. I don't know how you could present this otherwise, because either

1) he owns the car and for some reason after going the biometric setup it still "locks them out"
or
2) he is mistaking a similar looking car for his and gets in trouble.

Also, locking them out of their cars vs sounding an alarm and calling the police is different. And for option 3, why would the minister of commerce sacrifice the domestic market for the foreign market when it would cost actually more money in news and propaganda than just to fix the problem and fix both markets at once?

Perhaps this same premise could work with Ring doorbells or home security systems flagging deliverymen as criminals or something instead?

[Australian rePublic]

The fact that the actual story of the issue is that an ethnic minority is trying to enter the wrong car takes away from the fact that the car biometric system itself might be discriminating against ethnic minorities, because the alarm would have been called regardless. I don't know how you could present this otherwise, because either

1) he owns the car and for some reason after going the biometric setup it still "locks them out"
or
2) he is mistaking a similar looking car for his and gets in trouble.

Thanks. He mistook a similar looking car for his own and got in trouble

Also, locking them out of their cars vs sounding an alarm and calling the police is different.

Thanks. But that's the point though. The person in option 1 is saying the car sounded an alarm and called the police on me because I'm Bigtopian. If I weren't a Bigtopian, I would have just been locked out and that would have been the end of it.

Is this not clear enough?

And for option 3, why would the minister of commerce sacrifice the domestic market for the foreign market when it would cost actually more money in news and propaganda than just to fix the problem and fix both markets at once?

Good point, thanks!

Perhaps this same premise could work with Ring doorbells or home security systems flagging deliverymen as criminals or something instead?

So you're saying that I should look into doorbells etc. instead of a car? I've seen ads for these types of products, and as a delivery driver myself, I have found problems with those ads. Maybe I could make that work...

[Rejistania]

I think mandatory ID chips should also preclude this issue.

[Australian rePublic]

It's probably not going to work. Abandoned!