I’ll start…
Two questions. Who thought this was a burning issue in medical science that it deserved a study? Who funded this research?
The study was done in Italy. The primary was Paolo Vercellini who is deemed to be an expert in the study and treatment of endometriosis.
Not surprisingly:
This article has been retracted at the request of the Authors. The entire group of investigators contributing to this study requests to withdraw this article. We conducted the study in good faith and according to correct methodology. We believe that our findings have been partly misinterpreted, but at the same time realize that the article may have caused distress to some people. Women’s respect is a priority for us and we are extremely sorry for the discontent the publication originated.
It took seven years to retract it.
Ah, I didn’t notice that at first. “Post first, check later” 
But yeah, apart from the researchers not doing the study in the first place, some pertinent questions should have been asked before the ethics onf the study was approved, and the journal and its reviewers should certainly have asked questions about the ethics.
The Sheriff got only six month in jail…
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A Tennessee grandmother spent six months in jail after facial recognition software incorrectly implicated her in a crime in North Dakota. As a result, she lost her house, car, and job.
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I read yesterday that it’s a requirement in the US that all 2027 and newer vehicles be equipped with camera tech that decides from your eye & head movements if you’re sober or not and will decline to start the car if you don’t pass the test. Automakers don’t want this because they believe (correctly IMO) that people would rather buy used cars than new cars with this invasive tech that is sure to hallucinate at the most inopportune times. I wonder if this tech could malfunction in a way that results in someone with a history of drinking and driving wrongly going to jail?
Nothing in the law requires automakers to adequately secure the tech or prohibits them from uploading and storing data from the device, but of course I’m sure it’s vanishingly unlikely that bad actors would ever get hold of that data.
As a bonus this is supposed to add around $500 to the cost of new cars.
I swear, pretty soon you won’t be able to fart without Big Brother knowing about it. And you’ll be made to pay for the privilege.
lol what are they going to require you maintain an internet connection (while driving) and a subscription to a data center/LLM [AI] to process that data, in real time?
Don’t know how it works. It’s under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in 2021 and described as “advanced, passive anti-drunk driving technology”. I suppose it might be a self-contained appliance running a small LLM, perhaps with the aid of specialized chips. It would almost have to be if it’s supposed to work everywhere and every time, even if cell service isn’t available.
All I know is that regardless, it’s a Very Bad Idea just begging to bring about all sorts of hilarity.
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yeah like the os level id system stuff; apparently even for headless/servers, sex toys, pacemakers, etc, lol
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If I can’t use a computer without letting Big Brother know who I am, I will at the very least be off all social media.
We are creating a hellscape panopticon. Especially when you put it together with 6th gen WiFi in a few years – I understand it’s alleged it can track people & objects without cameras just based on how radio waves bounce off them.
Computing used to be fun, but we seem to be working really hard to ruin it for one & all.
I think I’d rather have a breathalyzer thing in the car as that can at least be doubled checked with another breathalyzer. What recourse would you have when an AI decides (through an algorithm that can’t be checked, or even known) that you are drunk when you are not?
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I’m old. My eyes are sometimes a bit rheumy. Also my back hurts so sometimes I ease myself into the car and close my eyes for a few seconds before proceeding, to let all the creaky protests in my body die down.
How is some pattern-matching machine that’s very interested in my eye and head movements supposed to process that if it’s told to prevent anyone impaired from driving? I guess it depends on the definition of impaired.
I don’t plan to find out.
I wonder if they’re going to train it on people with Parkinson’s or other movement disorders? Neuroatypical people with tics? People with assistive devices and no arms or legs?
It’s a fucking nightmare waiting to happen.
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I can see this becoming a new movie trope. Instead of someone failing to start their car in a desperate situation due to a dead battery, they can’t start it because the computer thinks they’re impaired.
Why not first start with actual and effective DUI control and enforcement on the roads? I’ve watched quite a few videos online on how you do it over there in the US, with a prolonged, inaccurate, and subjective protol on the roadside, involving balance, counting backwards, etc. And it seems to sometimes (often?) end with innocent people being dragged into the police station anyway because a power hungry/incompetent police officer erroneously “have a hunch”. So why not instead equip all police vehicles with hand-held law enforcement breathalysers, which will give an objective measure on the blood alcohol level in seconds, rather than the prolonged and subjective procedure you have now? Then resources can be used for actual enforcement and arresting those who drive while intoxicated instead of spending an insane amount of time harassing innocent drivers.
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if they did that, they might have to let you go after deciding that you are drunk driving; and that just isn’t how the world works
In the United States there are many hurdles in the way of anything to protect the motoring public from intoxicated drivers.
The tallest is the most obvious. Profits. 10% of the drinking public is responsible for around 60% of alcohol sales over here. If counter measures were installed in motor vehicles to bring this population down to a restricted consumption of alcohol the beverage and hospitality industries tank…
The second is the American proclivity for attraction to things that can kill us. Guns, alcohol, fast cars, balloon mortgages… We seem to hold these to be God given rights…and no nanny State is going to stop us from self sabotaging…
I always found the doctrine of “self moderation and personal responsibility” in consuming alcohol and operating a motor vehicle laughable. Especially after the fifth drink…