And since its collecting ALL data, including visual and audio, this is a voluntary spy device. Imagine if the government demanded that data be handed over and starts using that to spy on people. IMO this is not a stretch of the imagination.
I can see one group of people having a legit beef with this though: car rental companies. One idiot behind the wheel, and their fleet car might as well go straight to scrap.
The opportunities for misinformation and asymmetricality are huge. Don't like someone? Clone their license plate for a day and drive like an ass. How could you ever prove your innocence?
Loan your car to a friend and they could tarnish your reputation. It would make it inhibitive to share vehicles.
This is technology that drives us farther apart as people in favor of a few insurance companies making even more profit than they do already. Think critically.
It would also give police even more excuses to profile innocent people.
If you want people to drive more safely, then think up ways to get more people to drive more safely. Don't expand the surveillance mechanism to every moving vehicle.
Unless, of course, they pay this nice fee to have their fleet cars whitelisted in the app, call it "bad driver protection money"!
All I can see this accomplishing is adding yet one more gadget app for people to be distracted by.
I tell this to anyone who rages: You drive and meet a LOT of people on your way. You don't make a lot of mistakes, but you make a few at least every drive.
Now given that you meet a lot of people you are most likely seeing a ton of mistakes by people. But individually they are not really making many mistakes.
Sure some people are horrible, but not all. And often the horrible ones are behind you.
And also, no matter how "safe" you are, it only takes 1 mistake to kill a person. Example, yesterday I was driving, a guy went nuts behind me and almost killed a motorcyclist. I saw that and it distracted me long enough to almost not notice the car that short-stopped in front of me. Literally 2 more seconds and it would have been a wreck. And I consider myself a safe driver, but it only takes one moment of distraction.
Basically what you're doing is playing Russian roulette, and you keep "winning", well yeah, that happens, right up until it doesn't.
Drive like a Google car. Stop being an idiot. Get a smiley face score.
This app and the related one about insurance liability (posted here maybe a week or two ago) would unfairly rate me, because I go against the risk model and win consistently. I also agree that there are MANY "safe" drivers whose indecision and timid driving leads to bad situations; merging at 45mph, slowing way down for ramps, stoping at yield signs, driving under the speed of traffic, braking unnecessarily in traffic, etc. However, since in my situation, the insurance company gets to charge me a lot more, they're incentivized against modeling drivers like me as less risky than someone who is involved in more accidents than me but drives well within the limits and doesn't understand what happens when they approach or exceed them.
I wouldn't expect that to be a yes/no thing. Shouldn't it be based on compared to the average driver, as determined by the same system?
People would love such systems (and I'm afraid our privacy is gone for good).
The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through the automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.
The whole report is public, and it specifically addresses insurance in this context: https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/personal-privacy-information-soc...
looking -> recording -> sharing
These are all different things and our behaviour will and should change at each step.
No one can be drowned by a raindrop. A flood is another matter.
If I'm not that one person I'd have a problem with that.
> why suddenly connecting these dashcams to a network that shares information is a problem?
Switching from dash cams to police helps a bit. I think most people would be okay with one (or a handful) of police officers randomly walking through their neighborhood. Most locales would say it's a good thing.
Now take that to the extreme and have an officer every 10 steps, looking around in every direction, and writing down everything that's happening. Still a good idea?
Probably that bit
What if he was driving like an asshole because he was speeding to the hospital or similar reasons?
A real-life example: my friend was dating a woman whose brother got in an accident. After receiving painkillers, he became addicted to them (an old story at this point). As he weened himself off of them, taking responsibility, my friend would drive him to get methadone a few times a week. A system that uses information from this one would label my friend an addict because he was so often seen driving to or parked at the rehab clinic. When in fact, my friend was a charitable, stand-up guy helping out a soon-to-be family member recover and become a stronger, productive member of society.