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DO YOU KNOw wHO YOUR CAR IS TALKING TO?
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The growing debate over who gets your vehicle's data.
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It's time to change the way you think
most of the systems that operate your car. That trend began in
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about your car. On the one hand, it's a
1981, when the Clean Air Act required new vehicles to emit
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machine that takes you to work, to the
fewer exhaust pollutants. Automakers responded with
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onboard computer systems that controlled several engine
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quite possibly the smartest one you own.
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vehicle will remind you. Forget to buckle
Those relatively simple systems were followed by
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up? Your car's on it. And not only is your car keeping tabs and
computer-controlled safety features such as antilock brakes
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alerting you, it could be sending a stream of data about itself
and adaptive cruise control and, more recently, by
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and your driving habits to the automaker. If your current car
sophisticated navigation and crash avoidance systems.
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isn't doing all of this, your next one probably will.
Today, virtually all automotive components--the engine,
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These technical advances can provide major convenience
transmission, brakes, air-conditioning, lights, navigation
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Allison D. Nicholls Treasurer
to consumers by transmitting useful information to car
system, and so on--are connected to one or more onboard
companies, but they also raise questions about consumer
computers.
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choice, privacy, and security: Who decides where the data
The newest computers and communications equipment,
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goes and how it's used? Who has access to the data your
known as telematics devices, do much more than monitor
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car produces? Is the data secure from prying eyes? As
and regulate your car's basic functions. They're also able to
Joseph E. Milutis Easton, PA
technology continues to rapidly evolve, there is a growing
collect information from onboard sensors connected to the
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Allison D. Nicholls Bethlehem, PA
need to have clear answers to these questions.
accelerator, brakes, GPS, seat belts, air conditioner, locks, and
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many other functions. They can stream this data via Wi-Fi or
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It's not news that onboard computers control or monitor
to provide services including automatically updating your
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