Its fascinating stuff and I am absolutely intrigued by it. I wrap my brain around it now every-time I'm in a vehicle.
Many of you (myself included) will find my prediction a little unsettling, but its the only way we'll achieve level 5 autonomy, and I'm pretty sure we'll see this within the next 15 years tops as driver-less cars are forced to share the road with "old-school"(?) cars.
When a complete 5G build-out is in sight, it'll be a mandatory requirement for all new cars, driver-less or not, to be talking to each other... and talking to the network. But it'll go farther than just traffic flows, red-lights, pedestrians, etc.
This will sound so "big-brotherish"... but its the only way it can work. And they are gonna make it "work". Like it or not.
The cars, the network, the AI behind it all... its gonna know the driver. Intimately. It'll know when they're pissed off, it'll know when their late.... it'll basically know their mood at any given time and correlate that mood to their driving behavior as far back as the driving data collected on them commenced. The minute they plant their ass in that seat, basically everything they do will be digitized and fed into an all knowing system. How they drive on wet roads. How they drive at night, how they respect a bicyclist that's too far out in the road. Route patterns. The list goes on, there's a thousand different things and it's the AI's job to learn them all across 1000's of cars and figure things out accordingly. It's scary really.
Oh sure they'll say "its all anonymized" as they pass dozens of new laws... but we all know where that goes.
“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
-Scott McNealy (1998), CEO Sun Microsystems
