That is why I decided to make my own fully autonomous vehicle which uses some of the same advanced Ai and computer vision technologies that tesla, google and other companies use for their autonomous driving but for a fraction of the price! While they are very impressive they are out of reach for most makers and DIY'ers. We have all seen cool videos of expensive cars like those from tesla and google driving by itself over public roads. To allow information to more readily be sent to the vehicle, by any number of unchecked third parties, without properly considering all the potential externalities could easily be a recipe for a colossal automotive safety threat.Step 1: Wait.
#READWRITE AUTONOMOUS CAR LANDSCAPE SOFTWARE#
Perhaps a broader question needs to be asked, what are the bounds of Right to Repair in a safety-critical software driven automotive landscape?Īs we approach election day and worry about foreign interference in our democracy, we need to fully remember that the same nation-state actors and global terrorist organizations that are trying to shape the election would see a standardized open data platform as an invitation for a new type of interference. But requiring access to data in an accelerated timeline without seriously considering the possible externalities of a digital world, is simply a failure of imagination. Consequently, it is worth continuing a dialogue as to how data should be shared in a secure manner and even enhance our ability at MIT to do research with vehicles that currently encrypt telemetry.
Make no mistake, there are advantages to what the ballot calls for.
#READWRITE AUTONOMOUS CAR LANDSCAPE FULL#
By this I don’t mean a failure of vehicles to start, but rather a sudden full application of the brakes at highway speed meant much like 9/11 type event to purposely inflict large collateral damage. Just consider a scenario where a single virus sends a coordinated signal to the brakes of 1000’s of vehicles, suddenly stopping them in their tracks.
We understand that virus and other malicious efforts are being used to disable or try and extract personal identifying information from our computers, phones, and other electronics, but what can happen in vehicles is worse. An environment where repair shops utilize the same internet-connected tools to work on many different vehicles is the perfect arrangement to deliver and spread a ransomware virus or other malicious agent. Were this ballot question to pass and vehicle manufacturers to comply, vehicles themselves or individual repair shops could become the target of cyber-attacks. In 2019 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated in a report obtained by CNN that the “automotive industry likely will face a wide range of cyber threats and malicious activity in the near future as the vast amount of data collected by Internet-connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles become a highly valued target for nation-state and financially motivated actors." The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has recognized the threat posed by this when it testified that “the ballot initiative would prohibit manufacturers from complying with both existing Federal guidance and cybersecurity hygiene best practices.” The testimony states that “NHTSA is also concerned about the increased safety-related cybersecurity risks of a requirement for remote, real-time, bi-directional (i.e., read/write capability) access to safety-critical vehicular systems.”
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