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Humanist_Activist

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7. Anything with a computer in it is hackable, the question is how robust the security can be...

Wed May 27, 2015, 06:35 PM

May 2015

and whether its worth it for someone to hack it.

With failsafes and executable lockdown, partitioned userspace and system files, along with possible encryption of communications and filesystems and you can minimize the threat. This is no reason to not move forward with such technologies if they can help greatly reduce the amount of road deaths due to accidents every years. In 2013, 32,719 people died in car accidents in the U.S. We have to find ways to reduce that number further.

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Watch this self-driving car park itself... [View all] cherokeeprogressive May 2015 OP

Maybe she meant to do that, like Christine n/t DawgHouse May 2015 #1

Ha. The part we didn't see is where the dent left by the guy's forehead pops out all by itself. n/t cherokeeprogressive May 2015 #2

First, its supposed to be testing pedestrian detection, and second, that's not installed.. Humanist_Activist May 2015 #3

I know, right? cherokeeprogressive May 2015 #4

The point being that the fault in this situation is human error, not machine malfunction. Humanist_Activist May 2015 #5

When this technology is fully embraced, do you think any of it will be hackable? cherokeeprogressive May 2015 #6

Anything with a computer in it is hackable, the question is how robust the security can be... Humanist_Activist May 2015 #7