[SGVLUG] [OT] I have found "Big Brother", and he is us...

[Matthew Campbell]

I know my car does, I had a friendly engineer print it all out for me.
 Wow, what detail and color.

Matt

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Tom Emerson <starman9x at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Christopher Smith <cbsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Depending on your thinking, this might strike you as far more/less big
>> brother-ish than DriveMe Crazy:
>> http://articles.latimes.com/print/2010/dec/28/business/la-fi-allstate-20101228
>>
>
> More: yes, and for the reasons mentioned in the article [eventually
> becoming mandatory]
> Less: I'm already of the belief that cars already have the equivalent
> of an airplane "orange box" [black box?] flight recorder that can be
> read via the diagnostic port after an accident, so by voluntarily
> using a device to suck that info out of the box, you aren't really
> giving up something that couldn't be retrieved otherwise (if that
> makes sense)
>
> there is also the fact that there is no "conclusive proof" that you
> are the driver at all times (think car stolen by joyriding kids and
> returned later, a la "ferris bueler")  Also, without video/audio
> backup, how can the car tell the difference between a "swerve/hard
> stop" caused by avoiding a ball bouncing into the street (followed by
> a kid or a dog) vs. imbibing one too many?
>



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