Teehee.
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You know, I never thought about the surveillance and privacy violations that AVs bring along with them. It was a big deal with the Google map cars, but there was a person inside. It never crossed my mind that these cars would be in constant contact with law enforcement. I just thought all that information would be used for image processing locally to keep the car intact.
Just goes to show (yet again) that human beings are required to mind the machines to keep them from being used for dubious or nefarious purposes. Someone needs to be responsible for them and their actions because theyâre essentially children.
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Makes me think of this one.
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Exactly! Iâll admit, itâs kind of terrifying to me how quickly people, even very technical people, accept autonomous systems in the name of convenience (or at the very least dismiss them as âharmlessâ).
Iâve often said that fully autonomous vehicles canât coexist with human-driven vehicles because thereâs no way they can account for human randomness/recklessness/stupidity. Itâs all or nothing, because humans and machines donât play by the same rules and there are deadly consequences when those rules come into conflict.
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Yeah, the rolling surveillance tool wasnât expected by me either.
I think itâs the case that police and other LEOs regularly subpoena Ring and other cloud-based door cameras without ever contacting the actual âownerâ of said camera. With this part in mind, it makes way more sense. Waymo needs local buy-in, I imagine âIâll call the cops for youâ is a big bargaining chip for them.