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Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

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Re: Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

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> DARK Ooooof. This is of course a joke, but it's why you should be careful in naming. My guess is they mean "SHADOW" or "LOW_LIGHT".

Can we stop making of big deal (tm) out of every word that has even the flimsiest connections with race or racism?

Re: Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

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post #4
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> DARK Ooooof. This is of course a joke, but it's why you should be careful in naming. My guess is they mean "SHADOW" or "LOW_LIGHT".

Can we stop making of big deal (tm) out of every word that has even the flimsiest connections with race or racism?

I couldn't even figure out what he's talking about. People who want to see race will see race.. Facepalm

Re: Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

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> DARK Ooooof. This is of course a joke, but it's why you should be careful in naming. My guess is they mean "SHADOW" or "LOW_LIGHT".

Can we stop making of big deal (tm) out of every word that has even the flimsiest connections with race or racism?

I don’t think so. All the words which had actual connections have (understandably) fallen out of use.

Re: Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

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Sadly, one of the reasons I will never buy a Tesla. The lack of privacy concerns me.

Per the article: This is opt in. It seems like they're working on an on-board system to detect distracted drivers.

Per history: Tesla releases driver data whenever it suits them. See: every autopilot crash.

Re: Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

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Sadly, one of the reasons I will never buy a Tesla. The lack of privacy concerns me.

I think detecting when a driver is falling asleep could be an amazing safety feature. You would need privacy guarantees about where camera data is going, but I think it would be worth the tradeoff.

Re: Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

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Hah, if the main barrier to autopilot for cars is liability and insurance, passive biometric monitoring of the driver is certainly one way to shift liability around.

The real feature should just be a button that shifts insurance liability to Tesla for the period of the autopilot engagement and charges you a floating premium for it based on traffic conditions per mile/km while the autopilot is on.

The real problem is "free" auto pilot means people will use it often enough to make a catastrophe an actuarial inevitability, whereas if they have to pay to text while driving on autopilot, they're going to do it less, and live long enough to be killed by something else.

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