Re:Winner-take-all effects in autonomous cars
by putsteadywere on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:13PM
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If I had a level 5 autonomous car that was compromised by someone who wanted to kill me, they probably could. Or they could just push me down a flight of stairs.
Ultimately, I am alive because nobody cares enough to murder me.
Re:Winner-take-all effects in autonomous cars
by microcolonel on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:50PM
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"Why lock my door, people will open the door if they want to, or break the window."
I don't see what's wrong with having fewer things in your life which can silently kill you.
If you get in a new car, you are now completely at its mercy. There are few or no precautions you can take; you might as well lay on your back, and strap your arms down so your belly stays up.
What you're really doing is making it cheaper and easier to kill, misdirect, or trick you. This means that people who wanted to do these things before, but couldn't afford it, now can.
Any specific suspicious death may come and go, but the fact that something like this is believable with conventional networked cars is enough reason to be very skeptical of security and government access (and criminal access) claims of manufacturers, no matter how well-meaning.