We could also imagine a world in which more subtle attacks could reliably and fairly quickly cause injury/fatality accidents, which might appeal to terrorists.
That is a privacy nightmare without regulation on scrubbing extraneous information, done before upload: for example blocking out of pedestrian data; not just faces but clothing and gait, and probably also any data captured through windows.
It would be ideal to have a limited view of just the roads and signage, and have a retention plan that gradually keeps less and less historical data.
For accident review more of the data might be required, so vehicles should keep the last 24 hours of raw data.
Having a central database capable of being scraped and process to determine where any person is at any given time is a non-starter. Care needs to be taken to scrub all extraneous data from the fleet's network.
I don't want to disappoint, but the future will have no privacy whatsoever.
If you can be photographed legally in a public place, what's going to protect your privacy in public?
Any number of parties could lawfully and unobtrusively start slurping up all sorts of data which is in a kind of plain view, and nobody would really be the wiser.
That's a terrible design.
The obvious way is that the sign/beacon itself pings a server every 5 minutes, and when that stops you know it's broken.
Im also curious how situations will be handled where there are two speed signs: the regular posted speed and a temporary speed for construction. How does it know which to obey.
I personally don’t think it’s possible to make automated cars work well without a ton of infrastructure support.
