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U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com)
Calling it "the next revolution in roadway safety," the U.S. Department of Transportation hopes to standardize "vehicle communications" technology. Slashdot reader coondoggie writes:
The idea is to enable a multitude of new crash-avoidance applications that could save lives by preventing "hundreds of thousands of crashes every year by helping vehicles 'talk' to each other," the DOT stated... [D]evices would use the dedicated short range communications to transmit data, such as location, direction and speed, to nearby vehicles. That data would be updated and broadcast up to 10 times per second to nearby vehicles, and using that information, V2V-equipped vehicles can identify risks and provide warnings to drivers to avoid imminent crashes.
Self-driving cars (and human drivers) could be informed when it's safe to enter the passing lane (or when cars move into a vehicle's blind spot), for example, and "often in situations in which the driver and on-board sensors alone cannot detect the threat." Federal agencies estimate it will cost just $350 per vehicle by 2020 (and dropping over the decades to come), and they've also already issued guidelines about securing these systems from unauthorized access.
Self-driving cars (and human drivers) could be informed when it's safe to enter the passing lane (or when cars move into a vehicle's blind spot), for example, and "often in situations in which the driver and on-board sensors alone cannot detect the threat." Federal agencies estimate it will cost just $350 per vehicle by 2020 (and dropping over the decades to come), and they've also already issued guidelines about securing these systems from unauthorized access.
Let me give you a hint; this will be a proprietary standard that will make the politically appointed rich, absolutely destroy any anonyminity of movement you might have had, and give probably cause to arrest anyone, anytime.
This is why having the DOT, or any other government agency, create the standard is a terrible idea. The standard should be created by ISO, ANSI, IEEE or SAE. The result will still be politicized of course, but less so, and it will be more flexible, and extensible. The DOT should be setting broad regulatory guidelines, not micromanaging the details.
A) What kind of measures does this system take to mitigate the propagation of false information?
B) What would prevent data collection by third parties?
From everything I've read, there are no intrinsic defenses that ensure accuracy or privacy.
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We see things like this already in aircraft. They are very expensive, quite delicate, and not something I expect to see in the common passenger vehicle any time soon. Expense is one reason why people might not like it, the potential for government abuse is another.
It seem that whenever I turn on local talk radio there is almost always a mention of red light cameras, automated speed traps, license plate readers, and other ways the government wants to turn traffic enforcement into a revenue system. The government wants people to put electronics into their cars that transmits location, speed, brake light status, and perhaps other information so that government owned and controlled traffic signals can pick them up. I expect a lot of resistance to this.
The article claims the information would not be personally identifiable. My immediate response was, "bullshit!" Even if the V2V communication did not identify the vehicle over the air we still have license plates on cars and license plate reader technology, this will be abused.
What if a person that disables the transmitter? Is this in itself going to be considered "suspicious" behavior? You have nothing to hide, citizen, therefore you have nothing to fear, right?
I am fully expecting at some point a widespread level of civil disobedience on this, and soon. If taken too far people will rip the license plates off their cars and keep driving. What are the police going to do, arrest us all? The government governs with the permission of the people. People have license plates on their cars only because they permit it. This permission can be revoked.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
No, because then everyone would stop speeding and the revenue source would dry up. The system depends on the chance of being caught so low that most people are willing to risk it.
We have already seen people hack into cars and do things like turn off brakes, accelerate, and steer despite the driver trying to maintain control. Car to Car increases an already insecure point and could result in massive problems. Forget "I'm 6 inches away", consider "I'm a mile away" and the problems this will lead to on a busy freeway. How about "my speed is 55" when in fact it is 25, so your car crashes into them.
Yet another example of why IoT is not a good idea for mass consumption. It never will be, because humans are humans. Not all of us are good, and not all of us are bad. We can't ignore the latter extreme when considering technology.
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