alexhawdon

Questions about how this is going to be implemented and enforced from a technical and legal perspective are missing the point/benefit: this is about empowering parents and collectively changing behaviours.

"It's against the law so no you can't" isn't going to work with EVERY 14 year old. But it will work for many and hopefully that's enough.

My last ADSL router/modem from Vodafone (UK telecoms/broadband company - unsure who the OEM was) was amazing in this respect. You could configure it to have all the lights off by default, and it had an infrared proximity sensor built into the top - wave your hand to activate the blinkenlights.

Seems to me the quick solution would be to grant a blanket exemption based on the resolution of surface features.

I believe it would though. It's already happening higher up the supply chain where conveyor belts of produce are graded using computer vision (and other techniques, I'm sure).

This is about moving these techniques further down the chain. A robot picker arm with a few cameras attached that can tell whether something is rotten is well within our grasp. (Awful pun intended!)

A new pair of dark-coloured jeans is enough to mess up light coloured seats; it's probably not 'dirt' in the traditional sense. (I agree with you that the staff should be ensuring the showroom stock is spotless.)

Actually some Volvos do have pedestrian air bags!

(But your point still stands, of course.)

I think it might have been something by William Gibson? I believe she had to cut through the seatbelt and then call a friend to step out in front of the car causing it to career off the bridge and into the water, at which point the locks would release. (The ethics calculation deemed it preferable that she escape rather than perish.)

I'm hoping that this will be the 'solution' if AI eats many jobs. With an ageing population there's plenty of caring to be done. Hopefully society will figure out a way to value it more, so that it becomes a proper, first-class career-option/alternative rather than underpaid low-skilled work, or something that people find themselves obliged to do.

Don't see why not. Just make sure they have accessible ISOFIX (UAS) connectors and it'd be very straightforward.

They aren't really 'human rights' until they are applied to all humans. They're merely 'American Rights'.

Hmm.

I think if you try posit a canonical definition of the word 'Hacking' here, you're going to have a bad time. The community decides the relevance by voting.

> The status quo is established by the actions of large-scale corporate and political actors

Then isn't it important for people to learn about the status quo? Especially given it's moving so fast. Without this article I would have probably considered a startup doing the same to be cutting-edge, disruptive and most definitely 'hacking'. Now we all know where the bar is set.

That's a great story. It'd be interesting to know whether that was all they could afford, or if they were being very forward-thinking in using COTS hardware and a failure-tolerant architecture.