| Teeqoz said: Imo, everything that has to do with the actual controlling of the car (steering, speed, brakes, gearing, anything I'm missing?) should be in a closed system, ie. not connected to the internet or anything connected to the internet. Actually, not connected to anything that can receive signals of any kind. |
There is another point to be made here tho, when you program a car with an "autopilot" system you are going to be asking a computer programmer to play God a bit, if the car is heading towards a no-win scenario where there is a little girl going to hit the left side of the car or a dog walked out at the right side at the same time.... it's pretty dark to consider that the car is going to have to be programmed in such a situation to steer into the dog than to risk hitting the human. We're basically starting to program machines with a set of priorities of the order in which life can be ended down to the choice of "continue driving on road into school bus full of kids"/"vere off the road into a wall to avoid bus but potentially killing the passengers in the car" Basically putting together a pros cons list for life into a PC in the car... awful idea.
Even moreso if a hacker can tap into it and potential make a car into a killing machine if you can change around these settings. If it's possible to alter basic things like speed and heat it would only be a matter of time before you can change the very code the car is running from.
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