[ExI] Robot cars = even less privacy

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike's been
messing with that guy's car... etc

OK, so this is off subject but I could not resist, as the following is
something Spike would think of (and maybe do?):

Way back when the VW bug got popular, a man's neighbor got tired of hearing
how stingy the man's bug was on gas, so this is what he did:

Late at night he sneaked over and poured a gallon of gas in the bug.  The
next week he poured two gallons, then three......His neighbor went crazy
with love for his bug.

Then the neighbor starting siphoning gas - first a gallon, then two
gallons, and so on.  The neighbor started going ape with frustration and
worry.....

There is no good ending to this story, but I have remembered it for over 50
years, so it must have something about it that clicks with me.  Not the
cruelty part, but.............

bill w

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:29 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Subject: [ExI] Robot cars = even less privacy
>
> >...Credit cards, smartphones and Google already record and analyse
> everything in people's lives.
>
> >...Soon we can add robot cars to the list. Where you go, where you stop
> and for how long, what you do in the car....   Oh, and it is listening
> for voice commands, so it will record speech as well.
>
> http://phys.org/news/2016-11-autonomous-carsnew-oil-big-brother.html
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Oh BillK, this is potential for such terrific gags.  Hack your buddy's car,
> mess up his voice command file such that you can switch its command
> vocabulary with a phone.  He's on his way on a date, you switch the command
> set such that Oh BABY means stop, ah ah ah means swerve left and right,
> that
> sorta thing.  Passers by will wonder Whaaaat in the heeelll?  Spike's been
> messing with that guy's car... etc
>
> I mentioned the Truman Show yesterday.  That film was made in 1998.  We
> already saw privacy slipping away.  Recently I bought four security cameras
> for my home that do a lot of stuff we had posted years earlier would be
> great: motion detection, temporarily recording video, pretty good
> resolution.  These are battery powered, they can be turned on remotely,
> they
> are smaller than a baseball, silent, no LEDs unless you turn them on,
> wireless.  Think about it: those would be eeeeaaaasy easy to hide in
> anything anywhere, easy.  A clock radio, a closet, lots of places in a
> hotel
> room.  If discovered, there is no way to know who put it there.
>
> That part of the vision has come to pass.  Anyone can watch and listen to
> anything anywhere anywhen, and I forgot to mention: they are cheap.
>
>
> >...Is this tracking everything life really what people want?
>
> >...BillK
>
> We have no choice in this BillK.  We saw it coming, it happened.  We have
> no
> reasonable expectation of privacy, even where we expect it.
>
> spike
>
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