Hear You Scream: Hyundais of the Future Alert the Police

Hyundai Predicts Dystopian Surveillance.

It appears that actory surveillance is becoming unavoidable. Police forces are presently extracting user data shared with huge digital organizations, for instance Google and Facebook, without worry about their constitutional guarantees by simply buying the details as though they were another company. Assuming that, Hyundai Motor Group’s disquieting view of the future comes to pass, soon your vehicle could also be a source of such information.

The organization put the spotlight on the victors of its 2023 Ideation Fest, an effort established to cultivate and generate imaginative research ideas from their personnel. This year’s motif was “Technology with a Compassion that Transforms the Globe,” and one of the bronze honor champs was an idea called “H-SOS.”

The notion envisions a future where an automobile that is equipped with external microphones could be perpetually attentive for indications of suffering, for instance a person crying out or a blast. After noting such a phenomenon, the car can activate its lights, alert signals, and honk and then kick-start utilizing its cameras to record its environment.

The system would issue an alert to law enforcement, relaying the car’s position along with video photography. Moreover, when confronted with serious offences or calamities, the vehicle could notify neighbouring drivers to steer clear of the community.

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A good amount of the technology needed for a connected vehicle is already in existence. What needs to happen is its application and blending together. It has been widely discussed how Tesla’s Sentry Mode has proved to be successful at recording all types of burglars and lawbreakers, while cars produced by Rivian are fitted with video surveillance techniques of similar ilk.

Shazam and Google offer the capacity to recognize a few seconds of music, while SoundThinking Inc. formerly known as ShotSpotter, utilizes algorithms to keep an ear out for gunfire in multiple American cities. Although someone must listen to the audio prior to informing law enforcement, there is ongoing controversy over the effectiveness and benefit of this technology.

A multitude of contemporary automobiles are already linked to the internet in one form or another, able to be served with over-the-air updates by wireless internet or cellular service. GM has been furnishing interfaced services through OnStar for almost three decades; these feature the capability to ensnare and remotely decelerate thieved automobiles and alarm law enforcement as to their whereabouts.

The put-forward execution is a conceptualization for creating a social security network to stop illicit activities and misfortunes in vulnerable areas, which appears constructive. Technology such as this is not inherently wrong; however, with no well-structured privacy securities for individuals, it enables corrupt establishments and organizations to spy on whomever they choose with little opposition.

Connected vehicles and their digitization create conditions which make it simpler for governments to require these advanced nanny systems in automobiles. American regulators show a willingness to evaluate the effects of tracking devices. The necessary equipment – cameras, sensors, and microphones – can be bought at an inexpensive cost, and thanks to 4G and 5G networks, the software can be placed in the cloud.

The National Transportation Safety Board has lately suggested that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration make it mandatory for automakers to deploy intelligent speed assistance systems, which could warn drivers when their vehicle goes beyond the velocity limit. Implementing this technology, which would make it possible for the car to record a person’s speed and advise the law enforcement agencies when any irregularities transpire, looks like a rational measure for safety and is certainly achievable by 2023.

The federal government is encouraging automotive companies in 2021 to investigate incorporating technology that detects intoxicated persons who have been driving, thereby preventing them from being able to do so. This same year, the Homogenous Government gave a bronze award to “Drunk Hunter”, which has as its goal the utilization of artificial intelligence-based tools to predetermine and preclude auto operators while in an inebriated state and scrutinize their current behaviors.

Source: Hyundai Motor Group