Driverless vehicles could build a “gold mine” of personal data for private companies and would make it easier for them to target people as consumers, an Australian law professor has warned.
Des Butler, of the Queensland University of Technology, said the privacy risks involved in driverless vehicles were a “sleeper issue” that regulators were yet to fully consider, even though car manufacturers say the technology could be on roads in Australia by 2020.
“These vehicles will know where you like to frequent, which businesses, and may very well build a profile of you,” Butler said. “People will go into these things not realising just how much data the vehicle will be generating about them and not knowing the extent to which the data can be used.”
As even the most casual IM visitor has probably surmised I am essentially all in for driverless cars.
However in the interest of being fair I wanted to share a least a few articles which point out potential hazards or concerns.
Trust me it's not going to keep me from purchasing one at some point, but yes there could be issues with privacy, hackers, and occasional technological malfunctions.
In the meantime around 3,287 people are dying each day due to car accidents with an additional 20 to 50 million injured or disabled each year. (Source.)
Just to keep things in perspective.
They would certainly make long distance driving easier. If you get too tired to drive yourself, the car can take over. I would just make certain that my car was not hackable.
ReplyDeleteAnd how would you do that?
DeleteEverything is hackable have you not learned anything the last decade? With cars, the hacks will be built in, as they already are in most current electronics.
No thanks,the companies that have to have recalls to fix hundreds of thousands ,or more,of cars for air bags,cruise control,fuel system,etc,even paint jobs,are no where near to being ready for this.I'll wait a while longer before I'm that lazy
ReplyDeleteYou are using the global source for you number. The US number is much much lower at about 101 deaths per day. You want to make companies and their executives and like the Facebook, Googles, Apples, et al. even richer and have even more control over the peasants lives... keep giving part and parcel of your life for them to run then Gryph. Foolishness.
ReplyDeleteWhere you are headed is unwittingly handing over all the keys to your freedom, without a shot even being fired.
I knew that number sounded very high.
DeleteDriverless cars are the wave of the future. However I won't be the first one in line to buy one just as I'm not stupid enough to buy the newest beta version of any software while it's being tested out on the public.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll wait to see how many people get killed in a driverless car first and what can possibly go wrong will. How many millions have had their computers effed up in one way or another because of beta versions.
I can wait.
Are you going to be like Trump and refer to yourself in the third person now?
ReplyDeleteDon't be stupid. It's unbecoming.
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