Re:George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of ...
by brokenmachine on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:52PM
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I'm in Australia.
Cars need to be registered to legally be on the road, and you couldn't register a car with some homemade self-driving tech attached to it.
If you had a small startup selling the tech, I'm sure there's some painful and lengthy process to prove it's safe. But certainly if the code is user-modifiable, it wouldn't be approved.
How do other countries operate without such regulations? Certainly I've seen some crazy car mods on the road in US TV shows that would never be allowed without masses of red tape here in Australia. Even to import a normal car from Japan to Australia you need to get child restraint attachments installed/engineer approval/etc.
I don't know how a car could possibly be considered safe otherwise. Some of those "Pimp my Ride"-type show mods just don't seem safe.
Cars need to be registered to legally be on the road, and you couldn't register a car with some homemade self-driving tech attached to it.
If you had a small startup selling the tech, I'm sure there's some painful and lengthy process to prove it's safe. But certainly if the code is user-modifiable, it wouldn't be approved.
How do other countries operate without such regulations? Certainly I've seen some crazy car mods on the road in US TV shows that would never be allowed without masses of red tape here in Australia. Even to import a normal car from Japan to Australia you need to get child restraint attachments installed/engineer approval/etc.
I don't know how a car could possibly be considered safe otherwise. Some of those "Pimp my Ride"-type show mods just don't seem safe.