Self-driving cars are being tested in Nevada, but can this technology work optimally without Internet integration, and can we offer integration without improving security considerably? In fact, all M2M is a potential risk until security is tightened.
Your post joins you with Nicole and I, I think, Nasimson. We want the future as the Internet could make it but we want to avoid the security issues that the Internet has presented even at the current web 2.0 level. Maybe I'm not as cynical and curmudgeonly as I try to be, but I hold the hope that the problems of the Internet can be solved and these apps can be made safe. I just think we need to work on it, and that means human effort and money.
I feel the same way, Nicole, and yet both of us represent the inherent contradiction here. On one hand we need M2M and connectivity of resources for transporation to advance. On the other hand we don't need hackers causing crashes. The challenge for us all is to decouple these two things. With the Internet as it is, the only way to avoid the risk is to fail to meet the potential of the Internet in transportation. There has to be a better way. That gets to my point on VCs; why can't we get funding on something like this?
To answer your question, self-driving cars could ease congestion on LA freeways if they minimized accidents, which is a major source of congestion around here. Plus, if all cars were intelligent, we could program the cars so that they wouldn't lane shop, or drive slower than the speed limit in the fast lane. If cars drove perfectly by themselves, we could minimize the safe distance between cars and all cars would drive near the speed limit during the entire commute.
My favorite solution is an instrumented roadway which only allows self-driving cars. Cars on this roadway would have to be equipped with redundant, reliable, self-testing, and secure systems, but it would make it so that getting on the freeway would be like going on a gondola ride.
Tom I agree with most of your fears but I still think a self driven co operative or web linked car far outweight the disadvantages, hacking is a broader issue effecting the whole web 2.0 so why single out self driven cars?These self driven cars will cause less road congestion, and can eliminate the risk that drunk drivers pose to their own safety as well as others..
Tom, I agree with you that self-driving cars really won't meet their potential without being Internet connected. But the security risks are insane, and clearly -- from what you say -- the hackers are already getting giddy about the possibilities here. Truthfully, I don't want to see self-driving cars or Internet-connected self-driving cars on the actual roads for a very long time.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
50 billion household devices will be on the Internet by 2020, according to Cisco. And we're hearing foreign governments are hacking our infrastructure. Surely our refrigerators are next!
YouTube's move to a partial pay-for-view model could help relieve a dearth of good new content but it could also complicate debates in many parts of the world over payment by content providers for delivery of their material to customers.
That's what Larry Page said on Google's earnings call, referring to the conjunction of mobile and the cloud. Well, let's chart it then! We need to be thinking about an Internet where 90% of our traffic goes to 70 destinations within 40 miles of us.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
EU operators are considering joining up to create a pan-European network to reduce competitive overbuild and cost. This might lower costs and focus operators on higher-level, more interesting services.
The FBI recently issued a warning to smartphone users, highlighting two mobile malware applications: Loozfan, which steals personal information, and FinFisher, which is spyware that takes over a smartphone's functions.
The proliferation of "dumb" devices that use the Internet to obtain data or communicate may turn what was once a creative network of users into something resembling a power grid. Security risks and the connection of millions of low-cost PCs in developing countries won't help matters.
50 billion household devices will be on the Internet by 2020, according to Cisco. And we're hearing foreign governments are hacking our infrastructure. Surely our refrigerators are next!
A survey by JD Powers found that customer interest in product features is lessening as phones evolve. Rather than features, price is driving purchases, and that change could have a dramatic impact on how IT departments secure these devices.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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