Re:The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
by sangnoir on Thursday July 14, 2016 @09:09AM
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> I think this whole open source and right to repair/modify will be very interesting with self-driving cars, because of their interaction with the commons. Here are some issues...
I think those issues are red-herrings. We already have the tools to deal with bad actors in the commons. We already allow people to 'tune' their non-AI cars (and in the process its possible to exceed the pollution limits). The solution is to allow modification, but in an auditable and measurable process similar to Android's "fastboot oem unlock". AI cars should possibly be able to mark human-driven & non-stock-AI-driven cars and respond accordingly. This is assuming all cars will have a standard AI, otherwise the AIs will need to treat all the other AI-cars as black boxes - if a Toyota AI can't predict the behaviour of a Dodge AI car, then a 'tuned' AI shouldn't be treated any different.
I think those issues are red-herrings. We already have the tools to deal with bad actors in the commons. We already allow people to 'tune' their non-AI cars (and in the process its possible to exceed the pollution limits). The solution is to allow modification, but in an auditable and measurable process similar to Android's "fastboot oem unlock". AI cars should possibly be able to mark human-driven & non-stock-AI-driven cars and respond accordingly. This is assuming all cars will have a standard AI, otherwise the AIs will need to treat all the other AI-cars as black boxes - if a Toyota AI can't predict the behaviour of a Dodge AI car, then a 'tuned' AI shouldn't be treated any different.