street signs vs. faces

Posted Jul 23, 2020 14:13 UTC (Thu) by clump (subscriber, #27801)
In reply to: street signs vs. faces by gus3
Parent article: Image "Cloaking" for Personal Privacy

Street signs were designed for humans to understand. This will continue to be the case for a long time. As autonomous vehicles become popular it would be a good idea to augment human-readable signs with machine-friendly identifiers. Why not add a small RF box, or some kind of id that can be scanned by machines?

By all means, continue to learn to read symbols designed for humans. However it should be relatively inexpensive (and safer) to tell a machine "this is a stop sign".

street signs vs. faces

Posted Jul 23, 2020 15:52 UTC (Thu) by magfr (subscriber, #16052) [Link]

We all know that whenever the same information is encoded twice there will inevitably be a discrepancy.

street signs vs. faces

Posted Jul 24, 2020 15:04 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

If you add machine-friendly identifiers, you'd better make sure they have the same kinds of legal rules surrounding them that human-readable signs do. Otherwise malicious actors will be able to mess with the system with legal impunity. It could be very bad if people could create new traffic signs only autonomous vehicles knew about.