{"id":3303,"date":"2018-05-07T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:22:51","slug":"volvo-moving-towards-waze-like-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3303","title":{"rendered":"volvo moving towards waze-like functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shared <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/05\/07\/volvo-cars-and-trucks-can-now-share-real-time-traffic-information\">a<\/a> TechCrunch <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+WarrenMyers\/posts\/bcijr7YnEk2\">story<\/a> recently in a G+ group I&#8217;m in on {{Volvo}} debuting a new service to upload live traffic data from its\u00a0vehicles to be sent to other Volvos so they can avoid problem areas.<\/p>\n<p>Or&#8230;a self-built and -hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/waze.com\">Waze<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall that I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2010\/05\/13\/cloudy-driving-in-progress\/#.WvCy2dMvzgo\">some<\/a> about these <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2010\/04\/13\/driving-into-the-cloud\/#.WvCz0NMvzgo\">kinds<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2017\/02\/15\/vw-to-start-driving-into-the-cloud\/#.WvCz5tMvzgo\">things<\/a> starting back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Why, exactly, Volvo thinks it not only\u00a0<em>should<\/em> do this, but expects its customers to\u00a0<em>want<\/em> the manufacturer to be doing this is something I don&#8217;t understand right now.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s an interesting technical challenge &#8211; but it&#8217;s not exactly\u00a0<em>novel<\/em>&#8230;except in the sense of the vehicle doing this for you instead of you doing it via some mobile app or other.<\/p>\n<p>If this is something drivers <em>must opt-in<\/em> to use, that&#8217;s OK. If you can\u00a0<em>opt-out<\/em>, it&#8217;s OK, too.<\/p>\n<p>But if it&#8217;s not optional &#8211; this is a major privacy concern: one I&#8217;m sure many people would do without even stopping to take a breath, but a major privacy concern nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared a TechCrunch story recently in a G+ group I&#8217;m in on {{Volvo}} debuting a new service to upload live traffic data from its\u00a0vehicles to be sent to other Volvos so they can avoid problem areas. Or&#8230;a self-built and -hosted Waze. You may recall that I wrote some about these kinds of things starting back &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3303\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">volvo moving towards waze-like functionality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,30],"tags":[416,782,826,836],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmmm","category-news","tag-iot","tag-traffic","tag-volvo","tag-waze"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}