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>The company provided few details of how it plans to get to its end points: no information about what tech they would use for these self-driving cars, and wheth
by cinquemb 9y ago
>The company provided few details of how it plans to get to its end points: no information about what tech they would use for these self-driving cars, and whether or how they would work with partners or if they planned to build everything from the ground up.
>Nor did they give any information about the progress of these common platforms for building electric vehicles — although they noted that they had sold some 500,000 EV’s all in across the group to date — still just a drop in the ocean of the multiple millions sold by the three, and the tens of millions of cars that are sold across the whole industry.
>The group was also thin on specifics when it came to its plan for transportation services offered alongside their vehicles.
What is there to even talk about here?
- jakeogh 9y agoHow about the massive opportunity for surveillance? Roving robo-cop cars on dual-use contracts, parking, observing, instantly connecting to a remote operator when a violation is detected. Easily reduces the requirements to be a police officer to somewhere near "can you stare at a computer screen?". In places where the "speed cams" went down in flames (~70% of the vote against where I live) I'm more optimistic the people wont tolerate it, but god help the nanny states. Just to be clear, I sincerely appreciate the dedicated and excellent police out there, many of them share my views on the "speed cams", robo-cops etc.
- cinquemb 9y agoWill state actors abuse their ability to tap providers on their shoulder and siphon the data? Yes Will consumers use such technology increasingly more, esp as cost and availability of it increases? Yes. Will non state actors have eve more ability to use/exploit such tech for their own purposes? Yes. What people will do combat such? Who knows, though I know showing up to a voting booth wont change much in the scheme of things…