Nevermind!
Common sense has indeed prevailed! Minnesota has decided to stop enforcing an outdated law that had led to Coursera telling the state’s residents they weren’t allowed to take its free online classes.
via Minnesota bans Coursera: State takes bold stand against free education..
At the Black Hat security conference last year in Las Vegas, iSec Partners security consultants Don Bailey and Matthew Solnik hacked a Subaru Outback using a cellular network. They were able to unlock the car and even start its engine. Bailey said that he and Solnik took about 2 hours to figure out how to intercept wireless messages between the car and the network and then re-create the messages from his laptop.
via Self-driving cars could bring a new world of hacking | TechHive.
GM’s Cadillac division expects to produce partially autonomous cars at a large scale by 2015, and the automaker also predicts it will have fully autonomous cars available by the end of the decade.
But while we know that robo-cars are coming, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently released predictions that autonomous cars will account for up to 75 percent of vehicles on the road by the year 2040.
IEEE envisions an absence of traffic signs and lights since highly evolved, self-driving cars won’t need them, and it believes that full deployment could even eliminate the need for driver’s licenses.
“Suppose all cars are connected and a central station knows precisely their position and destination,” Broggi says. “The central station can send speed adjustment commands to the vehicles that enter an intersection in such a way that they do not collide and they occupy the intersection area one at a time, optimizing their movements. In this case, traffic lights will not be required since coordination is reached at a higher level.” We’re already seeing a basic form of this in testing going on in Europe that combines V2V and V2I communication, collectively known as V2X.
I want to see some large-scale simulations.
IEEE also predicts that the biggest barrier to pervasive adoption of driverless cars may have nothing to do with technology, but will be general public acceptance.
Now the term "computer crash" is being coined to describe what could happen.