Autonomous Vehicles – Hidden Threats No One Talks About
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Autonomous vehicles such as Tesla cars, Google, autonomous tractors and other vehicles are here and poised to rapidly become ubiquitous.
Many car manufacturers such as Ford, Tesla, General Motors, and others are hurrying to introduce them to market. You may have heard the of the benefits: fewer accidents, fewer deaths due to driving, reduced need for parking, reduced cost of owning a car or not needing one at all, etc. However, hardly anyone talks about the challenges & risks autonomous vehicles bring in addition to benefits.
In this podcast, Richard Jacobs discusses numerous potential threats autonomous cars may pose to our society including being hijacked through hacking, vehicle cyber-security & government regulations. Listen to the podcast and leave your comments, let us know what you think about autonomous cars and what future holds for this technology.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:08.0 | Future Technologies Boys to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and |
| 0:16.7 | starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.0 | You're listening to Future Tech Podcast, almost here around the corner of future technologies. This is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:36.0 | Today, instead of an interview, I'm going to talk to you about some thoughts on autonomous vehicles, which are fast approaching. |
| 0:44.3 | Depending on the city that you live in, you may see them driving around from Google |
| 0:48.7 | cars to now Tesla with its autopilot mode. So some thoughts that I'm not seeing in the various |
| 0:55.7 | articles that are coming out about autonomous vehicles that I think you may be |
| 0:59.5 | interested in. I don't mean this to be dystopian, but there's always a good and a bad side to technologies |
| 1:06.3 | that are coming out, so I want to address some issues that I think will be very important. |
| 1:11.5 | So a number of automakers have announced that they're going to be jumping on the autonomous vehicle |
| 1:15.9 | bandwagon and coming out with their own models, Ford, Chevy, etc. |
| 1:21.0 | And some of the automakers have talked about creating a car with no steering wheel, no gas or brake |
| 1:26.8 | pedals. The purpose is to save weight, to simplify the vehicle, and again to have an autonomous vehicle that drives you around. |
| 1:35.0 | But I want you to look at some of the possible downsides, |
| 1:39.0 | specifically hacking. |
| 1:41.0 | What happens, and I think this is definitely going to happen in the next 10 years or less, pretty much guaranteed. |
| 1:47.0 | You're driving down the road, maybe you're an executive of some company. |
| 1:51.0 | The door is locked. The heat goes on. The radio comes on, a voice comes through it and says, |
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