Did the article say that they planned to equip every car on the road with these monitoring devices? I agree that it would be too large an invasion of privacy to be widely accepted.
However, I think the idea might be to equip a fleet of cars, say, the fleet of city police cars and buses. Maybe some commercial fleets would agree to it for some tax breaks or other benefits. If you can get a few % of the cars on the road collecting the data you can probably achieve pretty good coverage. You don't need 500 cars all jammed in the same mile of I-95 telling you that it's raining. 1 or 2 will be sufficient.
-Jason
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Did the article say that they planned to equip every car on the road with these monitoring devices? I agree that it would be too large an invasion of privacy to be widely accepted. However, I think the idea might be to equip a fleet of cars, say, the fleet of city police cars and buses. Maybe some commercial fleets would agree to it for some tax breaks or other benefits. If you can get a few % of the cars on the road collecting the data you can probably achieve pretty good coverage. You don't need 500 cars all jammed in the same mile of I-95 telling you that it's raining. 1 or 2 will be sufficient. -Jason