Is safety worth the loss of privacy? - Michael Vazquez and Sarah Stroud
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Your government has introduced a plan to address record-breaking rates of traffic tickets and deadly hovercar accidents. They propose assigning “driver credit scores” to every citizen, but would need to install cameras and microphones in every vehicle. While it would make the roads safer, is this undeniable benefit worth the cost to drivers’ privacy? Michael Vazquez and Sarah Stroud investigate.
What are the moral advantages and disadvantages of a driver credit system like the one proposed? Is your support or opposition to the proposed system based on the feasibility of the system (for example, you might think it is very unlikely we could install cameras in every car), or is it based instead on the moral advantages and disadvantages (for example, you might think the cost to individual privacy is too high)?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Michael Vazquez, Sarah Stroud, Jet Propulsion
- Director Jeff Le Bars
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Music Stephen LaRosa
- Sound Designer Stephen LaRosa
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Produced by Sazia Afrin
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Fact-Checker Charles Wallace
