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Hands off: My wheel

1/11/2019

 
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By all appearances in story after story, week after week, the media taps into corporate PR and Marketing jockeying back and forth trying to win America’s heart for electric cars or autonomous cars. Will the benefits lean in favor for the environment, consumers, manufacturers, insurers, politicians or to each with variation?  It is appropriate to think about losing human cognitions when new technologies shift a phenomenon to a new idealism. The phenomenon is that the vehicle loaded up with computing systems actually moves the car in a direction under known conditions and in test environments. Will it kill the dog instead of the blind man in the crosswalk? – we don’t know exactly. Will it go to a location loaded with a bomb or could special sensors disable the vehicle? – we don’t know. When questioning deeply one should never be labeled a Luddite, alarmist or populist as one Washington D.C. think tank, the ITIF, is so adept at.  Everything is learned from the day we are born, every skill has a conception, then a memory learning process. 
We’ve driven automobiles for one century but in the next decade will require a cognitive adaptation experience which is about becoming an extension of a vehicle.  The future car needs several systems to operate; we give up personal information to co-operate.  The obvious is location data in the GPS, radar and mapping functions. We can be talking to a virtual assistant that uses a network ID. There will be a live bio-feed on the “drivers” attentiveness, pulse rate, his time in vehicle. Ownership will begin by importing his driving record, insurance and quite realistically, his public records such that when charged as a sex offender, is computer-warned to avoid school zones. The driverless car also integrates a driver’s private record much like a health record or HR background report because the car manufacturer owns their vehicles’ multi-softwares in the same way Microsoft owns Office 365. Their software must apply security which demands personalization for updates and bug fixes. The car, then, is really more like a co-sharing agreement between manufacturer and buyer due to numerous computer systems making it autonomous. 

Technological disruption and cognitive skills do have a correlation: the greater the disruption the more time it will take to believe in benefits without fear of losing personal freedom and, if there is one product that has fully delivered on the value of freedom, it is the automobile. 

Robert P. Waters
@2019
from: The Prophetic Backbone


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