Originally posted by PDL You mean like the supposed intrusive tracking that Microsoft is doing with Windows 10? With all the push back, now they are going to track = sell that information, to those other guys?
For all the complaints and gnashing of teeth about this issue, the vast majority of people seem to accept the trade-off. Most people use Windows, Facebook, Android, etc. despite the privacy concerns. Perhaps some companies will gain marketshare by offering less tracking (although they may have to charge more to offset the lost revenue). And perhaps governments will step in and regulate privacy as they do in Europe. But perhaps some people willingly sign up for services like Waze in which they agree to give detailed car tracking data to Waze in exchange for real-time traffic and rerouting based on other user's tracking data.
Overall, the personal, familial, economic, and societal benefits of sharing data are too high to be entirely ignored. Most people, companies, and governments do pick some level of sharing over privacy any day and everyday by their actions. Moreover, autonomous vehicle sales will be determined by commuters who would gladly give up the data that they already give up anyway (i.e.,all smartphone owners are being tracked 100% of the time) in exchange for getting to do other things besides drive.
Originally posted by PDL Two things, Talk to Boeing about FAA intrusion, I did work there supporting Reliability and Maintainability Engineering and the FAA was plenty intrusive. Second, a near-miss means that two or more objects have actually collided. Sort of like hitting the edge of the target is a near miss. The proper term is near collision not near-miss..
Fine... near-miss, near-collision, jumbo-shrimp, whatever. The point is to collect data on hazard-related anomalies (vehicles passing too close to each other, emergency maneuvers, software glitches, etc.) with the intent of improving the software and steadily reducing the rate of both near-accident events and actual accident events.
Originally posted by PDL How is that going to help when you encounter a new situation, or one that that requires communication to the hive? And it can't be using wireless since you have stated that wireless is not a requirement.
When was the last time a human driver called someone about a "new situation" while driving? There would be no requirement for communication with the hive mind in the short-term although that communication is useful in the long-term for gaining experience that is shared during periodic software upgrades.
I had hoped that the myth of requiring an omniscient central controller had died with the Soviet Union. If massive flocks of birds can fly in complex, 3-D collision-free patterns in the sky without GPS, cellphones, smart infrastructure, or a central controller, so can flocks of cars drive collision-free 2-D patterns on the roads. If tiny bird brains can handle this, so can autonomous vehicles.