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  • Headlight Glare Epidemic: The Dangerous Expectation Gap in “Intelligent” Driver Assistance Tech

    Ever been blinded by new headlights on a dark road? Ever felt your ‘smart’ car ‘ping-pong’ in the lane? You’re not crazy. We’re diving into a bombshell report that connects the ‘glare epidemic’ to the ‘black box’ failures of ADAS. What we found is a massive ‘Expectation Gap’ between marketing and reality.

    Read the full post: https://doomscrollnews.com/adas-headlight-safety-crisis/

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  • An Investigative Report on Headlight Glare and Level 2 ADAS Safety

    An Investigative Report on Headlight Glare and Level 2 ADAS Safety

    A significant and growing portion of the driving public reports being “temporarily blinded” by modern vehicle headlights. Some drivers now link that glare to specific, severe accidents.1

    Simultaneously, the “intelligent” automated systems designed to control these lights are facing scrutiny. These same systems, which also steer the vehicles, are being recalled for sensor failures 2 and are implicated in a growing number of fatal crashes.4

    This report investigates the intersection of these two public safety crises. The first is the “glare epidemic” from OEM headlights. The second is the opaque and fallible nature of Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

    It seeks to answer a key question: Are these systems a safety feature, as marketed, or do they represent a new, unregulated hazard?

    Executive Summary

    This report investigates two critical and intersecting public safety concerns: the widespread public outcry over dangerously bright OEM headlights and the opaque, fallible nature of automated “intelligent” systems, specifically Automatic High Beams (AHB) and “lane tracking” (Level 2 ADAS).

    Key Findings:

    1. The Glare Paradox. A major disconnect exists in public-facing data. The public reports a “glare epidemic” from OEM headlights, with anecdotes linking glare to accidents.1 Conversely, official IIHS data shows glare as a factor in less than 0.2% of crashes.6 This report demonstrates the systematic flaws within the IIHS data. The IIHS self-admittedly cannot track the primary crash type: a glare-blinded driver running off the road.6
    2. ‘Intelligent’ Failure. Automatic High Beam (AHB) systems are not advanced AI. Manufacturer manuals explicitly state these simple camera systems are known to fail. These failures occur in common, high-risk scenarios, including fog, rain, snow, hilly roads, and sharp curves.7
    3. The ‘Black Box’ on Wheels. The AI models and source code for mass-market ADAS suites (e.g., Toyota Safety Sense, Honda Sensing) are proprietary. They are not public for review.10 The industry’s internal validation standard, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), relies on secret virtual simulations.13 This means the public has no way to verify what scenarios are (or are not) being tested.
    4. Documented Dangers. These systems are not just theoretically flawed. They are the subject of official recalls for sensor failures.2 They are also cited in civil lawsuits alleging fatal defects 10 and widespread owner complaints describing “ping-pong” behavior 8 and “fighting the steering assist”.8
    5. Manufacturer Accountability. Skepticism about manufacturer accountability is misplaced. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has broad legal authority to compel data from all automakers, including foreign ones. This is evidenced by NHTSA’s “Standing General Order” forcing ADAS crash reports.4 It is also proven by its history of levying millions of dollars in fines for defect-reporting failures.16

    This investigation concludes that the primary risk is the “Expectation Gap.” These systems are marketed as “intelligent” but are, by design, brittle sensors. This gap between marketing and reality creates an unreasonable risk. It encourages drivers to trust a system in conditions it is not designed to handle.

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  • Asylum Vetting Black Hole: How B/Trillions in Tech Failures and Lost Data Shattered US Immigration Control

    What happens when a government’s data system completely collapses? We’re not talking small glitches. We mean billion-dollar ‘ghost systems,’ 300,000 ‘lost’ children, and data so ‘garbled’ the government had to apologize to the Supreme Court. This episode, we dig into the ‘System of Failures’ report and what it means for U.S. security.

    Read the full post: https://doomscrollnews.com/us-immigration-data-infrastructure-failure/

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  • A System of Failures: Vetting Gaps, Tracking Voids, and the Infrastructural Collapse of U.S. Immigration Data Systems

    Executive Summary

    This report argues that the U.S. government’s immigration data infrastructure is in a state of foundational collapse. This collapse is not defined by isolated incidents. It is defined by systemic, interconnected failures in vetting, tracking, and technology.

    Analysis reveals these failures are enabled by a governing culture of opacity 1 and deep organizational fragmentation.

    Vetting failures include a systemic “black hole.” Here, hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers are not properly screened.2

    Tracking failures include the functional loss of hundreds of thousands of Unaccompanied Children (UACs) in a bureaucratic shuffle.3 They also include the literal loss of physical files, a failure that led to thousands of unvetted naturalizations.5

    These front-line issues are symptoms of a catastrophic breakdown in IT modernization. This is evidenced by billion-dollar “ghost systems” at USCIS and ICE. These systems failed to deliver, increased backlogs, and created new security breaches.6

    The system’s core data is “garbled” 10 and unreliable. This unreliability has undermined U.S. Supreme Court proceedings.11 This state makes effective oversight impossible and ensures these failures will persist.

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  • Coinbase Exposed: Inside the Monero Loophole, Regulatory Gaps, and Systemic Insider Vulnerability

    Coinbase projects itself as the “safe” way to buy crypto. But what’s really happening behind the scenes? A new report reveals a “veneer of trust” hiding massive risks—from a conflicted auditor to a deliberate “Monero loophole” that games regulators. We’re breaking down the report’s most explosive findings… right now.

    Read the full post: https://doomscrollnews.com/coinbase-security-risk-analysis/

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  • The Two Coinbases: Compliance, Collusion, and the Monero Loophole

    The Two Coinbases: Compliance, Collusion, and the Monero Loophole

    Executive Summary

    This report investigates the critical gap between Coinbase’s public brand as a trusted, compliant entity and its operational realities.1

    Our analysis finds this $86.1 billion 2 company’s “veneer of trust” is undermined by three core issues:

    • Conflicted Governance, stemming from CEO Brian Armstrong’s “revolving door” history with the company’s independent auditor, Deloitte.3
    • Strategic Hypocrisy, by which Coinbase publicly bans the privacy coin Monero to appease regulators 7 while privately facilitating its trade through a new, unregulated “DEX loophole”.2
    • Systemic Vulnerability, evidenced by a recurring pattern of insider-led data breaches.14

    The report concludes that Coinbase’s security relies on an unacceptable dependency on individual integrity, not on robust, verified controls.

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  • Didi’s Collapse to Tesla’s Robotaxi Dream: The Danger of Buying Top-Down Stories Over Bottom-Up Facts

    How did Jim Cramer tell people to buy Didi days before it collapsed? And how is Cathie Wood making the exact same mistake with Tesla’s “Robotaxi” narrative? It’s called the ‘top-down’ fallacy—a sickness in financial analysis where a good story trumps hard facts. Today, we’re deconstructing the report that exposes it all.

    Read the full post: https://doomscrollnews.com/top-down-vs-bottom-up-analysis/

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