Are We Ready for Driver-less Vehicles? Security vs. Privacy- A Social Perspective
This addresses the critical challenge of balancing safety and privacy in autonomous driving, which is an incremental discussion on existing technological and legal issues.
The paper examines the trade-off between security and privacy in autonomous vehicles, arguing that accurate constraint satisfaction for safety negatively correlates with preserving user privacy, leading to inevitable privacy concerns with social and political implications.
At this moment Autonomous cars are probably the biggest and most talked about technology in the Robotics Research Community. In spite of great technological advances over past few years a full edged autonomous car is still far from reality. This article talks about the existing system and discusses the possibility of a Computer Vision enabled driving being superior than the LiDar based system. A detailed overview of privacy violations that might arise from autonomous driving has been discussed in detail both from a technical as well as legal perspective. It has been proved through evidence and arguments that efficient and accurate estimation and efficient solution of the constraint satisfaction problem addressed in the case of autonomous cars are negatively correlated with the preserving the privacy of the user. It is a very difficult trade-off since both are very important aspects and has to be taken into account. The fact that one cannot compromise with the safety issues of the car makes it inevitable to run into serious privacy concerns that might have adverse social and political effects.