[LINK] Google's driverless car is evil (by Buick)

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Kim notes,

> http://readwrite.com/2013/12/11/google-driverless-car-evil

> > In effect, the Google’s vehicle technology car represents a shift from
> > corporate control of the digital devices we carry to corporate control
> > of the vehicles that carry us.

And also ..

> "But it’s not hard to imagine the algorithm for the routing of its
> autonomous cars, when influenced by other Big Data that Google and
> others collect, will take us not on the quickest or safest route,
> but the one most profitable to the company." 

Maybe only directed to, say, BP service stations when needing petrol?

Or instead of McDonalds ads on our computer screens, we may be seeing
the entrances to Mcdonalds drive-throughs through our vehicle screens.

Cheers :)
Stephen



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