Nevada law regulates KITT?

[Michael Pajaro]

Nevada is coming up with a set of regulations regarding self-driving vehicles. Check out the graphic TechCrunch used for their article.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/nevada ... ving-cars/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Knight Racer]

This always made me wonder if we could get technology to do more,could we get around certain laws.For instance if we had our dash monitors show the rear view for parking purposes,would we need a rear view mirror?In Knight of the Phoenix the police officers pulled over Michael and told him to keep your eye on the rearview mirror.Well if they bothered to check,he didn't have one in his car.

[Skav]

A Killer KITT scenario is not too far off.

[jup]

A Killer KITT scenario is not too far off.

Hince, why I have (and always will) supported the notion that automobile computers should never have any access (direct or indirect) to the outside world of communications. GPS locator signals seem safe enough. But, anything that has the potential of uploading virii/trojans/malware/etc has no place inside a computer that is in charge of whether people live or die. Sadly, some designer will see the benefit of being able to remotely patch the software that runs these driving machines or wish to have service data or interlink the vehicles to a central mapping network or something along those lines, leaving things wide open for some hacker with a desire to turn cars into high speed road missles with little more then a firewall and a password to figure out on how to get past...

Luxury computers, such as devices that hook into these portable hot spots, and have nothing to do with vehicle operations...totally fine, in my opinion. Just keep the important electronics as secure as can possibly be by keeping them simply isolated.

Still, we probably can't fully get past a hacker going under the dash and attaching a device that feeds in a virus. (KR predicted...)

[jup]

Nevada is coming up with a set of regulations regarding self-driving vehicles. Check out the graphic TechCrunch used for their article.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/nevada ... ving-cars/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is good that they are thinking in advance about the arrival of this new technology into the general public. Because, it will be a reality, once 'somebody' decides that it is safe enough.

Baby steps are already emerging. As this one radio ad that I heard from the other day was hinting at. Some kind of safety computer would not only warn you of unsafe lane changes, it would literally take over the wheel, just in case you happen to ignore the vocal warning...along with a few other features along those lines.