* Posts by Brad Templeton

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'Big Brother' - the price of self-driving cars

Brad Templeton

CVIS not needed, but privacy danger is real

Something like CVIS would be a very bad way to design a self-driving car. In particular, the cars could only go where the centralized system was if they needed it. The real work in robocars involves completely independent cars that don't depend on anything external, though of course they will use whatever external info is available to them. But not depend on it. The first car on the road can't depend on it, and that's true everywhere.

I have a large collection of essays on the future of self-driving cars at http://robocars.net, and in particular one on privacy issues at http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/privacy.html

I plan to expand this area too. The risk is not the central system, but the fact that robocars inherently will have lots of sensors and cameras viewing all around them, and in many cases recording that, putting cameras everywhere, all the time unless we work to find a way to do it better.