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Old 07-20-2015, 05:18 AM   #181 (permalink)
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Old 07-20-2015, 02:57 PM   #182 (permalink)
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I wish I could drop support for public education. I only wonder what knowledge and passion I could have gained if the resources that went to my public education were spent privately instead.
You'd be a compleat corporate tool.
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Old 07-20-2015, 03:03 PM   #183 (permalink)
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You have villainized everyone on here that disagrees with your ideology that Google is an evil corporation that intends harm towards people for profit. Assuming that all who are opposed to your way of thinking has ill intentions for you is how wars are started.

The 2 political parties often fall prey to this fallacy when they assume each side intends harm towards particular groups of people. In reality, both sides want to encourage good behavior, prosperity, and health, they simply disagree on how to accomplish this.
You are being very naive.
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Old 07-21-2015, 02:50 AM   #184 (permalink)
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Old 07-22-2015, 02:32 PM   #185 (permalink)
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Maybe you should hold on that old jalopy for a while...

Hackers using your vehicle's IP address can take over your infotainment center and actively control your windshield wipers, AC to max, change your classical station to a hip-hop station and even mysteriously take over your accelerator pedal! A couple of hackers are proving that the present offerings of a 'connected' vehicle are very vulnerable to nefarious 'take-over' scenarios. Through cellular connection, they could reprogram the car and send commands to change dashboard info, control steering, brakes and transmission while you may be using the vehicle on the highway. The hack was however benevolent because they are revealing their attack procedures and reveal vulnerabilities at the Black Hat security conference later this year. Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway
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Hackers using your vehicle's IP address can take over your infotainment center and actively control your windshield wipers, AC to max, change your classical station to a hip-hop station and even mysteriously take over your accelerator pedal! A couple of hackers are proving that the present offerings of a 'connected' vehicle are very vulnerable to nefarious 'take-over' scenarios. Through cellular connection, they could reprogram the car and send commands to change dashboard info, control steering, brakes and transmission while you may be using the vehicle on the highway. The hack was however benevolent because they are revealing their attack procedures and reveal vulnerabilities at the Black Hat security conference later this year. Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway
Good thing old cars are impervious to "hacking" like cut brake lines and sugar in the gas tank.
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Sadly they will use the excuse that the drone vehicles are all about safety, and lets do it for the kids. I will agree that is is quite likely that these self drive vehicles will be safer. However the whole element of big brother and bigger corporations managing, controlling, redirecting, or even shutting down your vehicle is very uncomfortable. And the element of hacking into a vehicle or worse yet they will end up tying these cars to a larger control grid that can be hacked and literally everything shutdown.

If these cars can remain autonomous then maybe it can be useful technology to make the roads safer, but I have my doubts and really think it is about the greater control over society in general... Yes, I just leave my tin foil hat on all the time... Keeps my head cool while I am driving around in my car with no AC on and the windows cracked... :-D LOL

I can see a day in a not so distant future where it will be illegal to sell a new car that isn't "approved" as a self driving vehicle. I don't think it is as far off as we think.

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Old 07-22-2015, 06:49 PM   #188 (permalink)
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Good thing old cars are impervious to "hacking" like cut brake lines and sugar in the gas tank.
I can get (indeed, have gotten) locking gas caps, and check that my brakes work before getting out on the highway.
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You are being very naive.
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Frank's been hacked! It's obvious by the uncharacteristic comment here.

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