Hype
for a money source?
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Somebody said if a company came up with crazy idea, other players would follow
suit to gain customers.
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* 2007-08 crises happened because US home buyers had jumped in the market with
belief that house prices would go up forever. They paid only interests on the
mortgage and hoped to make money as prices going up. So riskier mortgages or
subprime mortgages sneaked in and collapsed.
USA is obsessed with new technology including science fictions, I think. US
started 2 ideas:
1. Mobile payment was taken off, mostly because users wanted to wave their
expensive mobile phone, iPhone, in front of a cashier. Credit card is thin and
more secure.
- With payment info in the phone, users have their wallet open while going
around the city. Hackers could hack in the phone to steal info anywhere. Also
they could eavesdrop at busy shopping malls. So, jobs for investigators.
- Credit information on a smart phone must be encrypted without a master key.
This would enhance security. However with fucking neurons and memory collector,
you couldn't handle any secret to hackers - not to mention about your former
employees sold info.
2. Self-driving cars - all hi-tech companies and car manufacturers are jumping
in and racing. How could they be sure of their unfailing technologies including
computers, sensors, and surrounding equipment such as GPS, and street info's
sensors?
* Who would issue insurance for self-driving cars in case of accident?
- Normally with a driver, police could tell who was at fault quickly. It's over
for insurance to repair car damages.
- Without a driver and many factors included after police said the faulty car.
Insurance might have to go after car manufacturer, sensor manufacturer,
computer manufacturer, power utility, etc. I guess, they couldn't go after GPS
provider, which is owned by military. If military needed satellites, they would
take back those, i.e. no more or faulty GPS signals.
- Power provider could shut down electricity at any time due to trouble or
maintenance.
- Traffic lights would go nuts due to technical issues or power outage.
- GPS provider, military, could take back satellite networks at any time for
their tasks. We didn't have our own GPS system.
- Other equipment in an automated car such as computer and sensors are
electronic equipment and embedded software, which could be defected or buggy.
- Telco or wireless operators didn't offer 100% up time. Wireless equipment
providers were allowed to bring down system for maintenance and upgrading at
most 20 minutes a year.
- For your record, TomTom GPS jumped like crazy in downtown of Toronto due to
high rise buildings. Perhaps, car manufacturers should test out their vehicles
in New York City.
* The bottom line is "there are no 100% reliable factors in equipment and
environment that the autonomous car manufacturers have been based on."
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