(Expensive) Arrival of Self-Driving Vehicles

As self-driving vehicles add more expensive sensor equipment while at the same time are still “learning” how to self-drive, when should we expect the self-driving vehicles are BOTH cheaper and safer than existing vehicles today?

Josh

May 11, 2017

Reality of Self-Driving Vehicles

The UK is enacting laws to penalize distracted drivers using mobile phones. At the same time IBM is coming up with mechanisms to detect when a vehicle should hand-off to the human driver.

Josh

May 9, 2017

Defining Security and Privacy Tradeoffs

A secure system is tasked with protecting assets. Real life examples might be security guards or locks on doors. Typically security becomes layered on, especially as the system or asset to protect grows, such as a large building might have multiple security…

Josh

May 7, 2017

Transparency — Self-Driving Software

Lets us examine why self-driving software should be transparent, or more generally software which is deemed critical should be auditable, publicly examinable, and available.

Josh

May 6, 2017

Distracted Driving Penalties and Fines

The UK is now policing distracted driving by enacting a law enabling police officers to pull over drivers suspected of using mobile devices while driving. The penalties are severe. New drivers (within the last two years) face stiff penalties whereby they can…

Josh

Apr 14, 2017

Self-Driving Attacks

The NHTSA has recently published their guidance on vehicle to vehicle communication.

The promises of vehicle to vehicle communication include the improvement of safety by enabling vehicles to communicate with the infrastructure (e.g., traffic signals) and with other…

Josh

Apr 13, 2017

AI Forced Self-Driving Liability

The elephant in the room regarding self-driving vehicles is who bears the responsibility? Obviously big name manufacturers do not want to tarnish their name and bear the financial burden of liability issues.

Josh

Apr 11, 2017

Stop Passing the Blame to the Computer Algorithm

(Involuntary) Algorithm Selection Disclosure Responsibility

United Airlines booted a boarded passenger claiming the passenger was selected by the computer system. At what point do…

Josh

Apr 7, 2017

Vehicular Open-Data Testbed

Apple in Nov 2016 raised comments to the NHTSA regarding the need for privacy while simultaneously the need for sharing of near-collisions and collisions. This is important point as self-driving vehicles compute on massive amounts of data. However, what makes it challenging is…

Josh

Apr 6, 2017

National Security Privacy

Question: Which agency is responsible for protecting the data of American citizens (so that it doesn’t fall into another manipulative country’s hands?)

Question: Which agency is responsible for protecting the data of key government employees?