GM sued over automobile 'black boxes'

[piku]

<< For all you know, it could indeed be information about what you do, such as how many miles you put on your car per day, how far your commute to work is etc etc. >>



How does that effect you at all though? &quot;ooh they know how much I drive my car!&quot;. Does it matter? If anything, they could use this to help R&amp;D by making future cars to peoples driving habits.

 

[shifrbv]

I agree that consumers should be told that information is being collected. This black box could end up being something like what I have read about OBD (On Board Diagnostics). I read somewhere that OBD III is being designed to support communications so that monitors can be put in place to tell when emmisions failures are occuring, as an environmental protection. In some states which require automobile service checks, motorists could potentially be fined for driving around with their &quot;Check Engine Soon&quot; lights as the ODB III could communicate this. It's getting more and more difficult to determine what information will be used by companies as technology which doesn't seem like it would be in your average car is slowly being installed by auto manufacturers.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

tagej might be worried that they are tracking him driving down to the seedy part of town and picking up his G/F for an evening or getting his pron


Dude, lighten up. If you're on the internet your surfing habits can be recorded. and sold and used.

I've always felt that people that are so defensive about privacy and people collecting data on them are the people that are doing something wrong in the first place.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

Some people need to learn how to read.


<< SDMs, which are part of the air-bag systems >>

Ain't no damn way we are monitoring your daily driving habits, your possible moving violations, or any other paranoid delusion.

 

[Rendus]

I bet these are the same type of idiots who sue websites for tracking IP addresses and referal information, saying it invades their privacy. Personally I find the lawsuit-happy society here disturbing...