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https://www.investopedia.com/news/steve-wozniak-turns-tesla-critic-doesnt-trust-elon-musk/
Steve Wozniak spoke recently at the Nordic Business Forum in Stockholm. A clipping from the end of the short article,
After years of upgrades and new sensors, Woz sees Tesla as a company that has made major promises and delivered well under the bar. "I love that car, but the trouble is Elon Musk is portrayed in a lot of moves with a lack of faith and trust," he said. "What he says, can you really believe in him? Is he just a good salesman, like Jobs, and may not be there [in the end]?"
Wozniak went as far as to suggest that "every other car manufacturer in the world," including Audi and BMW, "are actually ahead of Tesla for self-driving cars." He then praised his Chevy Bolt EV, which he prefers to drive for everyday life.
It doesn't seem that long ago that Woz was calling out Toyota for problems with the cruise control on his Prius, but here's an update from 2010 -- https://gizmodo.com/5462205/steve-wozniak-update-on-his-prius-problems
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @03:41AM (1 child)
Mercedes says that if confronted with a situation where a decision has to be made about harming the driver or harming bystanders, the self-driving Mercedes will plow through the 6 year olds crossing the street rather than drive off into a ditch-- Mercedes knows their market.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mercendes+self+driving+car+to+favor+driver+not+bystanders+in+crash&client=firefox-b-ab&gbv=1&sei=WYlyWpi7LYn2jwP5tYnoAQ [google.com]
If you have a license plate on your car you are being tracked. If you have a cell phone that is powered on, you are being tracked. If you own a car that was made in the last 5 years, you are possibly being tracked in real time-- a lot of these cars have, and use a data connection to track you even if you do not pay extra to use it for something you find useful. For these years of cars and a bit older, you are almost definitely being tracked off-liine to a "black box" that can be accessed and the data used against you e.g., after a traffic accident.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/21/003259/onstar-terms-and-conditions-update-raises-privacy-concerns [slashdot.org]
I'm not sure what the solution is, but technical mitigation will only go so far (search page for "salt")
http://wipkip.nikhef.nl/events/defcon/DEF%20CON%2021/DEF%20CON%2021%20video%20and%20slides/DEF%20CON%2021%20Hacking%20Conference%20Presentation%20By%20Pukingmonkey%20-%20The%20Road%20Less%20Surreptitiously%20Traveled%20-%20Video%20and%20Slides.srt [nikhef.nl]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @04:29AM
My technical solution was to remove the black box. Failing that, I would have been happy disconnecting it from its antennas only.