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Exactly. Or someone attempts a carjacking.

• ChuckMcM 9y ago
  Raises an interesting privacy question since the car is scanning with lidar and radar all of the pedestrians as it is going along. At what point does is capture gait analysis and allow home base to tell the cars to be on the lookout for someone with a particular gait [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3925574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3925574/
  • monk_e_boy 9y ago
    Or fleet analyse your driving style and adjust their reactions to you and your car. At some point they'll flag some other drivers as idiots and avoid them, speed past or fall back a safer distance. Other drivers will be aware of what the Waymo car is doing - oh look, it sped past that OAP driving, why? Are they jabbing the breaks unexpectedly? Drifting out of lane? Hm. Then this data is going to get fed into other agencies and insurance dudes... This whole thing is going to get messy and just push everyone to get rid of cars and just use taxi services.
    • Zhenya 9y ago
      I'm curious why the downvotes on this. SDC will absolutely be an immense tool for insurance companies to price their product according to the risk the perceive from specific driving actions. They already do this, however their source of data is just the DMV via traffic violations. This can also be a source of (small) revenue for mapping providers and sensor aggregators (eventually).
      • monk_e_boy 9y ago
        I think it's because they don't want it to be true. Or they read some sort of perceived insult in my comment.