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There's a worry that insurance won't cover you if the car manufacturers say "Oh he hacked the software". Accidentally hit someone? Now you have to pay the full
by bellyfullofbac 6y ago
There's a worry that insurance won't cover you if the car manufacturers say "Oh he hacked the software". Accidentally hit someone? Now you have to pay the full damage. Got into an accident? Sorry, pay your own hospital, your coverage has been cancelled.
A neater hack would be for the jailbreak to delete itself and restore the original software when it detects that the car crashed, e.g. do it on airbag deployment.
- thesuperbigfrog 6y ago>> There's a worry that insurance won't cover you if the car manufacturers say "Oh he hacked the software". Accidentally hit someone? Now you have to pay the full damage. Got into an accident? Sorry, pay your own hospital, your coverage has been cancelled. You bring up a good point, but that assumes that there are problems with the replacement car software. People repair and modify their own cars today and most insurers do not object unless their is some kind of gross negligence / unsafe modifications.
- Karsteski 6y agoPerhaps we need a version of FOSS for insurance then. However there is far too much legal red tape in the insurance industry, and it is certainly not a free market where disrupters can enter easily...