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An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

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Re: An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

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Post by aub3bhat »

Great who needs debate around static ALPR (license plate readers) data collection when we will soon have swarm of cars running with connected dashcams. The resolution is already good enough for face recognition on bystanders/people crossing street. Things will get even more interesting once we get self driving cars equipped with omnidirectional video recording capabilities.

I am very interested in what can be done, with such data. I am currently working with long duration (>20 minutes) dashcam videos uploaded by users to youtube.

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Post by tedmiston »

Hopefully this can seed the discussion of privacy implications for tracking a driver's actions, especially tied to the (sort of) unique ID that is their vehicle's license plate.

I wonder if they'll be able to tell when someone else is driving your car from the "fingerprint" of their driving style.

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Post by btcprint »

tedmiston wrote: post #4

Hopefully this can seed the discussion of privacy implications for tracking a driver's actions, especially tied to the (sort of) unique ID that is their vehicle's license plate. I wonder if they'll be able to tell when someone else is driving your car from the "fingerprint" of their driving style.

There was an article recently about obd2 scanners recording information such as throttle application, brake pressure, etc and after recording information for 15 minutes could determine with X% accuracy who was driving and after 60 minutes of data, could fingerprint who was driving with 97 (or maybe it was 100%?) Accuracy.

Pretty interesting stuff

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Post by tedmiston »

btcprint wrote: post #5
tedmiston wrote: post #4

Hopefully this can seed the discussion of privacy implications for tracking a driver's actions, especially tied to the (sort of) unique ID that is their vehicle's license plate. I wonder if they'll be able to tell when someone else is driving your car from the "fingerprint" of their driving style.

There was an article recently about obd2 scanners recording information such as throttle application, brake pressure, etc and after recording information for 15 minutes could determine with X% accuracy who was driving and after 60 minutes of data, could fingerprint who was driving with 97 (or maybe it was 100%?) Accuracy. Pretty interesting stuff

This is neat.

My roommate in grad school developed a somewhat related idea but for identifying someone's "typing cadence". He used it for an additional security factor in the way that a person types their passwords in a browser.

Re: An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

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Post by macintux »

Today I pulled into a turn lane and stopped alongside the car ahead of me to let them know their brake lights were out. Had to honk incessantly to get their attention. Then I waited in the wrong lane (no one behind me) to pull back into my original lane to go straight through the light.

Probably would get a demerit from an AI for that maneuver.

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Post by walterbell »

tedmiston wrote: post #6
btcprint wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was an article recently about obd2 scanners recording information such as throttle application, brake pressure, etc and after recording information for 15 minutes could determine with X% accuracy who was driving and after 60 minutes of data, could fingerprint who was driving with 97 (or maybe it was 100%?) Accuracy. Pretty interesting stuff

This is neat. My roommate in grad school developed a somewhat related idea but for identifying someone's "typing cadence". He used it for an additional security factor in the way that a person types their passwords in a browser.

I read an article about search engines using autocomplete keystroke timing for user fingerprinting, but can't find it at the moment. Wikipedia has a few references, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics

Re: An AI dashcam app designed to rate every driver

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Post by dogma1138 »

readams wrote: post #9

Man this is a really creep company. What do they imagine their business model really is? The warning thing is not a good business. Presumably they really want to sell this data to insurance companies.

Actually this isn't a bad business model iMO they sell the data to insurance companies and you can lower your insurance costs.

And while your insurance cost might also go up if it deems you to be a reckless driver that can also have a good impact because it can force you to drive more safely in order to bring your insurance costs back down.

If they can incorporate the app with some instructional service like a weekly summary of all the misstakes you make and give you say 5 tips to drive better it can actually have quite a positive effect on road safety.

And while it's a bit "creepy" I see this to be pretty much similar to insurance companies "paying you" to quit smoking even sending you to "free" quitting smoking seminars/workshops or "paying you" to go to the Gym often even with a free yearly subscription.

Those things cost pennies to the insurance companies while saving them a lot of money in the long run, only a handful of less lung cancer cases or heart attacks a year can cover the cost of those programs for 1000's if not 10,000's of policies.

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