A Waymo representative said the vehicles’ data collection while parked is limited and not designed to continuously record pedestrians, license plates, families walking on sidewalks or children playing in driveways.
A Waymo representative said the vehicles’ data collection while parked is limited and not designed to continuously record pedestrians, license plates, families walking on sidewalks or children playing in driveways.
Standard corpo newspeak…
Like you know “pistol braces” that look and function like a stock and can be legally used as a stock, as long as they’re not sold as a stock. That is because they were explicitly not designed to do that, so the manufacycan not be held responsible.
Also the crux of lawsuits against gun manufacturers. Their products used exactly as designed, shoot a bunch of bullets that do exactly what bullets do exactly where the user pointed the gun.
They’re saying a Waymo could park outside your house, and your kids could play in the driveway and the Waymo would turn on it’s cameras and record your kids, using their movements to train it’s AI on predicting the movements of kids playing by a street.
However, while them intentionally designing the car to do that may have legal privacy concerns, but making it a much wider thing that triggers anytime people are around for general training, that means anything else they want to do has a foot in the door because “we already have the data, it’s not about if we should gather it”.