Buying a used car is practically an American rite of passage-a process fraught with anxiety and exhilaration. You spend hours browsing online, analyzing different models and comparing prices until you finally see it-the one that feels right, listed for the price you can afford. Unfortunately for many, that feeling of triumph quickly fades the moment […]
Toyota’s Connected Cars and the Lawsuit Over Driver Data Sharing
Modern cars are far more than just transportation devices. Connected technologies allow the modern vehicle to perform tasks not too dissimilar to the smart devices many of us use in everyday life. Connected cars provide services such as entertainment and navigation, safety features and remote control over vehicle systems, but with this new range of […]
Automakers Hit the Brakes on Selling Your Driving Data
Today’s vehicles are more than just equipment to get from point A to point B. The cars of today are filled with high-tech sensors, Internet connections and software systems that can gather a vast range of information related to driving behavior. All trips can provide information on speed, acceleration, braking patterns, places traveled, and car […]
A Major Win for Driver Privacy: GM’s Costly Data Settlement
Today, our cars have transcended their original purpose as mere vehicles designed for getting us from place A to place B. They have unobtrusively been transformed into sophisticated digital systems, each one capable of generating enormous amounts of data concerning the individuals that use them. Each navigation input, each request for assistance to a central […]
How Washington Uses Phone Data to Predict and Prevent Speeding
Traffic enforcement has become a cat and mouse game as drivers over the years have tried all tricks in the book to beat speed traps using radar detector or laser jammer. Currently, there is a new game-changer which is rewriting the rules and it is surprisingly its own data which is produced by our smartphones […]