Methinks this technology would require some heavy security to prevent misuse. What's to stop me tapping into this feature with some hacked car (what a cool idea) and using it to, say, stalk someone? I don't really like the idea that people could find out where my phone is at any given time; not that anyone would really want to. I'm sure theres probably a way to do that right now but I'm imaginging that any new infrastructure relating to this feature will make it a lot easier.
That being said, the old "why can't people just pay more attention to the road" argument falls flat when you realise that as much as we'd like that to be the case, there's a reason modern cars have airbags and three-point safety harnesses. Perhaps features like this - I'm a bit dubious about this one specifically - will be the modern equivalent of the seatbelt?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Methinks this technology would require some heavy security to prevent misuse. What's to stop me tapping into this feature with some hacked car (what a cool idea) and using it to, say, stalk someone? I don't really like the idea that people could find out where my phone is at any given time; not that anyone would really want to. I'm sure theres probably a way to do that right now but I'm imaginging that any new infrastructure relating to this feature will make it a lot easier.
That being said, the old "why can't people just pay more attention to the road" argument falls flat when you realise that as much as we'd like that to be the case, there's a reason modern cars have airbags and three-point safety harnesses. Perhaps features like this - I'm a bit dubious about this one specifically - will be the modern equivalent of the seatbelt?