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Spies Riding Shotgun

Posted by michael on from the i-called-it-first dept.

Slashdot has covered before the proliferation of black boxes - event data recorders - in modern automobiles, that automatically record data about what the car has been doing and make it available after the fact to police, insurance companies, and people suing you - just about everyone except you, in fact. We'll add to that with yet another story about the computerized spy riding shotgun in your new car.

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  1. Drivecam by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh, well, I suppose anything is better than what happened to this guy.

    It's a Drivecam video - it records the last 30 seconds or so of driver video and only saves it if an accident occurs. The guy was probably kicking himself for installing it. It probably killed whatever insurance claim he had.

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  2. Constitutional rights... man! by Thunderstruck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, a lot of these posts raise an interesting question. If technology is going to be able to tell everything about you, for good or ill, what exactly is your right not to testify against yourself worth?

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