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Forget Self-Driving Cars, Your Car Could Automatically Rat You Out to Police
- m0nty 10y ago> This series of articles is fictitious and designed purely to explore possible futures, challenge and stimulate strategic thinking. Careful with the comments folks ;)
- anthonyreinette 10y agoHahah thanks ! You saved me a good rant session !
- devoply 10y agoWell what's a rant. A rant is moral or righteous indignation expressed as such. But it's taken on another connotation as unwelcome cynicism akin to evil in the culture of positivity. I won't rant any more on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_indignation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_indignation
- deathanatos 10y agoThat statement should be way more prominent in the article. To not have that prior to the text, or not immediately after it (and not mostly through a paragraph that I skipped because I though it was about the author/website that's in a smaller font) seems highly manipulative.
- CM30 10y agoNo kidding. The fact it's right near the end of a fairly long disclaimer block is even worse, since most people will likely never read that far.
- TulliusCicero 10y agoI don't understand this even as fiction. If your car is fully self-driving, it obviously wouldn't matter if one of the passengers is drunk.
- gambiting 10y agoHmmmmmm, at the moment, in many EU countries for example, you are legally required to stop and give help if you see an accident(you actually can't get a driving licence if you haven't completed a first-aid course for that reason). One could make an argument, that even if the car is self-driving, the "driver" should be able to help or do a manual override of the car if it becomes necessary. At the same time, we already have autonomous train systems, and the conductor absolutely can't be drunk while in charge of the train. Why would it be any different for cars?
- zyx321 10y agoThat's not just for drivers. You must assist people in danger if you can do so without endangering yourself. We also have fully autonomous train systems with no conductors in the vehicles at all.
- taneq 10y agoTelemetry doesn't require anything near a self-driving vehicle. I'd wager that almost all new cars on the road today are logging extensive telemetry. Ones with advanced features like lane-keeping are definitely doing so.
- di4na 10y agolet's say they try. I work for a car manufacturer closely with the team that deal with the data from "connected car". Their data processign and storing stuff is... let say far from being able to use these data.
- taneq 10y agoIntresting, thanks for the inside peek! I guess I shouldn't be surprised that (like almost any large company) the IT infrastructure is a bit neglected, especially on the logging and diagnostics end.
- di4na 10y agoworse than that. I am working on rebuilding that logging and monitoring system for the servers. The whole infra date from the early 2000s. But the worst part is the lack of knowledge and talent. 15 years of stagnation does no good.
- nom 10y agothe author should've used insurance companies instead of the police, then it wouldn't be that far fetched :)
- jaclaz 10y agoAnyway the fictitious Gregor Kashniv was non-fictitiously drunk as a lord, and it's overall a good thing that he fictitiously woke up almost 24 hours later in a cell than either (fictitiously) wake up in a hospital bed or NOT wake up in a morgue (and no people nor animals were harmed in the making).