You would be surprised at what they can do now. Here is a brief overview of the Google automated car's capabilities.
Posted on 03/18/2015 6:41:09 AM PDT by kosciusko51
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk thinks every car on the road today — and many more in the future — will eventually be outlawed.
The reason? They require humans to drive.
“In the distant future, [legislators] may outlaw driven cars because they’re too dangerous,” Musk told NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at company’s annual developers conference Tuesday. ”You can’t have a person driving a two-ton death machine.”
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Nah, I`ll take Rush any day.
Reading the responses here to this article, it reminded me of an article I read a couple of days ago. The article basically said that even if automated cars reduced fatalities by 90%, we would still be more critical of a robot-caused death than we would of a human-caused death. We will criticize them for only being 99.999% safe, while we ignore it if humans might only be 99.9% safe.
There is a human psychology element at play here: we are okay with being killed by factors we feel we have some control over but are not okay with being killed by something that we have less control over, even if it is ten times less likely.
I think that what Poison Pill said in comment #41 is more likely to happen than regular cars being outlawed: insurance rates will be one-tenth what they are for an automated car compared to what they are for a regular car. At that point, it will not take long for 90% of new car sales to be automated cars. Once that happens and we get bombarded with headlines about the tens of thousands of fewer automobile fatalities every year, we will be scratching our heads about how silly we were to not embrace the technology sooner.
Cars can be hacked as it sits.
If it has automatic parking assist, cruise control, and computer aided traction control that uses the brakes, your car can be subverted.
Now, imagine that with a robocar where you are out of the loop.
There is no way an auto car is going to be able to drive in the snow, and a million of other things. Freepers read to much sci fi. Heck trains, WHICH DRIVE ON RAILS, are not robotic.
Just because it has a computer does not mean it can be remotely controlled. Cars have had dozens of computers in them for decades now, yet you never hear of them being hacked.
My expertise is in computer chip design (hence the username), and people often don't understand that not everything has remote wireless access, and that it is easy to segregate different systems in the car that may have remote access.
That didn't even make the list.
Did you intentionally miss the point? Elon sure as hell did.
It isn’t the governments job to outlaw or mandate things like this.
Period.
UH, a teen with $15 worth of electronics did indeed hack a car.
Didn’t need to actually do much physically to the car.
Fact is, yes cars can be hacked.
You would be surprised at what they can do now. Here is a brief overview of the Google automated car's capabilities.
I am thinking Agenda 21. It is all about control. Housing, food, healthcare and transportation will be under the control of the central government.
Again: If it is computerized, there is a way to defeat or subvert it.
But he first had to have physical access to the internals of the car, correct? If someone gets internal access to your car, then they don't need to hack it. =)
Easy enough for a mechanic, or some alphabet agency with designs on harming you to do.
Tell me, do YOU trust our government enough to give your mobility over to them in this fashion?
I do not.
And some cars have a remote network connection.
You wouldn’t NEED a physical hands on with those cars.
You just need to be close enough.
{Think “OnStar” style stuff where they can remotely kill the car.}
I guess open carry and DUIs will be a thing of the past too.
How much do you charge a mile or kilometer for use?
Can you pick up hitchhikers?
Or will defensive measures be built in?
A brave new day alright.
An automated car does not give access to the government. It is self-contained and does not depend on remote input. In fact, in the video I posted they talked about how they don't even really need GPS input.
“And some cars have a remote network connection. You wouldn’t NEED a physical hands on with those cars. You just need to be close enough. {Think ‘OnStar’ style stuff where they can remotely kill the car.}”
Again, a remote access kill switch is completely segregated from the other control functions of the car. By that I mean physically separated in the hardware. You've watched too many movies if you think a hacker can overcome that barrier remotely.
What makes you think the insurance companies will allow that to happen?
So long as you want to go where they will take you. And when.
You may as well just have mass transit...How silly to have a car!
Won’t it be wonderful when an entire grid section could be placed on lockdown and all the little people held safely in their vehicles while some menace or another is safely dealt with.
One thing we HAVE seen is that if technology CAN be used to curtail individual freedom it WILL be used that way.
“An automated car does not give access to the government. “
And the NSA laughed.
Go on.
“It is self-contained and does not depend on remote input.”
OnStar ring any bells?
“Again, a remote access kill switch is completely segregated from the other control functions of the car.”
Not all that much.
They need to segregate it more.
And if it can talk to the in car network at all, that is an instant nogo.
And guess what?
Car makers aren’t following that suggestion all that much.
And yes, CARS HAVE AND CAN BE HACKED.
Unless the government MANDATES that any automated car has that access in order to be approved to operate on public roads.
Because auto insurance companies operate in highly competitive free market?
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