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"Oh it's turning. Brake! Alright, we're scared but we're good."
The Tesla Model S had only gone a few feet, rolling mostly straight from one empty spot in the parking garage to another. The driver wasn't actually behind the wheel, though. He sat in the passenger's seat, donning an EEG headset that allowed him to control the vehicle with his mind. Meet Teslapathic.
This feat is the brainchild of California-based technologists Casey Spencer, Lorenzo Caoile, Vivek Vinodh and Abenezer Mamo. Their team used Spencer's 2015 Tesla Model S 85D for the hack, and their project placed third at the Cal Hacks event for university students this month.
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The team only had 36 hours to make Teslapathic happen for the hackathon. In their setup, an EEG headset translates the brain activity for "stop" or "go" into analog signals broadcast by an off-the-shelf RC radio and articulated actuators on the pedals and a motor on the steering wheel, according to the team's description.
A machine learning training program turned the brain activity into specific commands. For "go," Spencer thought about tapping his right foot, and for "stop," he thought about clenching his left hand. The analog signal for "go" caused a linear actuator affixed to the brake pedal to recede, and the actuator on the gas pedal to engage. For "stop," it was the opposite.
Steering was slightly clunkier, and not brain-controlled. They installed a windshield wiper motor fitted with a potentiometer on the steering wheel. A head-mounted gyro for the driver provided some steering so when the Spencer turned his head right or left, the steering wheel responded.
For safety, the code included an emergency brake in case of failure, the user had to hold a dead-man's switch in order to broadcast a signal, and a block wedged behind the accelerator prevented the Tesla from going too fast. And, at worst, the passenger could kick the actuators away from the pedals.
Granted, once it went, the Tesla wasn't quite between the lines and probably would have dinged the neighboring sedan if Spencer didn't think hard enough about stopping. But those few feet represent an incredible surge into the future.
A year ago, Spencer created a brain-controlled golf cart (video) dubbed the "Cranium Cart" for Cal Hacks. Potentially wrecking a golf cart isn't the same as risking a $85,000 Tesla, but Spencer clearly isn't afraid to put his car to the test. He is upfront about participating in Tesla's referral program, too, which probably helps.
In September 2015, he became the first person to break the 500-mile limit by going 550.3 miles on a single charge (video) going about 21 mph across two states with no stops. Earlier this year he pitted the Tesla against a 2015 BMW M4 (video).
"I especially love going the extra mile," Spencer wrote on his YouTube channel. "Mostly because it doesn't cost anything."
BMW will test autonomous vehicles in Munich next year as it seeks to keep up with ride-hailing firms like Uber [UBER.UL], which have spent billions on pay-per-use personal transport.
The German carmaker will have about 40 vehicles with self-driving functions in Munich's inner city and then expand the project to other cities, BMW executives said on Friday.
"There is a trained test driver behind the wheel of every car," Klaus Buettner, BMW's Vice President in charge of Autonomous Driving said.
Uber's rapid growth has prompted BMW to consider how autonomous vehicles may help them accelerate their own push into pay-per-use transport.
Software and technology companies like Lyft, Juno and Uber have shaken up the traditional auto industry business model of selling cars by offering customers an alternative to vehicle ownership through smartphone-based ride-hailing services.
Now traditional car companies are expanding their own ride-hailing schemes, while investing in self-driving technology.
"Ride hailing is nothing more than manual autonomous driving," Tony Douglas, Head of Strategy for BMW's mobility services said. "Once you dispense with the driver you have a license to print money."
BMW has already made significant progress expanding into the market for car sharing by introducing pay-by-the-minute services like ReachNow in Seattle, Douglas said.
"We had 14,000 people sign up in 4 days, in a market already served by Zipcar, Uber, Lyft and Car2go," Douglas said.
"Someone else spent the money to educate the market and then we came in with a cool product. We will not be the largest, but we can be the coolest," Douglas said.
"Uber and Lyft do not operate their own fleets of cars. Owning the fleet means you can make offers that Lyft and others are unable to provide. For example providing car sharing for a specific community only," BMW's Chief Executive Harald Krueger said.
Tor does not want to depend on government money, starts crowdfunding campaign for funding
In
order to lessen its dependence on U.S. government donations, private
communication network Tor, the network that facilitates hidden
communications and secure Internet activity has launched a campaign
seeking crowdfunding for its work.
According to The Verge,
currently up to 90 percent of its funding comes from government
donations. To kick off the campaign for donations, the organization has
published a blog post called a ‘This is what a Tor Supporter looks like:
Laura Poitras’, who is the filmmaker behind the documentary on the
Edward Snowden-NSA leaks and a leading privacy advocate.
“There
are so many reasons…that we want to protect our privacy and not
broadcast every move we make online. Tor is an essential tool that is
needed by people to do what they do. It fosters free speech and
independent voices.” she said.
Poitras,
who is on the U.S. government’s watch list, explains in the post that
she sees Tor as “an essential tool that is needed by people to do what
they do. It fosters free speech and independent voices.”
It is how Snowden and her communicated and shared the information that was essential to breaking his story. Poitras says:
“There’s
no way I would have been able to protect the initial source without
using Tor… Fundamentally, without Tor and other free software tools I
wouldn’t have been able to do the reporting, and the story would not
have been broken”.
With just a post on the Tor blog and a handful
of media reports, the crowdfunding campaign has gotten off to a
relatively low-key start. It has become all the more obvious this month
that there is a huge requirement for independent donations.
The
reason being reports suggest that researchers at Carnegie Mellon were
paid $1 million by the FBI for research on how to crack Tor. According
to the fairly vague statement issued by university, it claims — which
were first raised by Tor — were “inaccurate” and that Carnegie Mellon
was issued with a subpoena “requesting information about research it had
performed.”
Carnegie Mellon wasn’t too clear on the inaccuracies
of the claims but, nevertheless, cyber security watchers have questioned
whether there was some form of secret understanding between the two
parties.
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“Most Used Words On Facebook” App Collects Lot Of Your Personal Information
Facebook
newest application not only wrecks personal space but is making users
wondering if it’s worth it. The “What Are Your Most Used Words on
Facebook?” app created by a South Korean company named Vonvon displays a
“word cloud” based on your frequently used words in past status
messages, and assembles them into a picture that shows the most common
ones in a larger size. The application might seem like fun at first, but
UK-based VPN company Comparitech warns that it is a “privacy
nightmare.”
According to Comparitech, which first reported the
privacy issues says that the app has been shared over 16 million times.
The site wrote “That’s over 16 million people who agreed to give up
almost every private detail about themselves to a company they likely
know nothing about.”
In order to make the application work,
basically you need to grant the application access. In other words, when
a Facebook user signs up to use the app, he or she agrees to give the
“What Are Your Most Used Words on Facebook?” app permission to collect
your IP address, profile picture, age, friends list, posts, posts you
are tagged in, birthday, education history, hometown, likes, photos and
more. This data can be stored on Vonvon’s servers anywhere across the
world.
There
is growing concern among Facebook users after they have discovered that
the applications needs additional access to personal stuff like photos,
posted movies and even conversations. While the application is quite
invasive by nature, no one spared a thought to think if sharing your
personal data is worth the trouble.
“We may continue to use any
non-personally-identifying information in accordance with this Privacy
Policy (e.g., for the purpose of analysis, statistics and the like) also
after the termination of your membership to this WebSite and\or use of
our services, for any reason whatsoever,” says Vonvon’s privacy policy.
“Vonvon processes Personal Information on its servers in many countries
around the world. Such information may be stored on any of our servers,
at any location.
While
there is no clarity as to what the site is doing with the information,
but it makes clear that it can sell the information to anybody that it
wants without giving you any notification and that simply using the app
means that you have given your permission for them to do so.
Once
it has sold that data on, it gives no protection for how it is used. The
privacy policy “does not apply to the practices of entities Vonvon does
not own or control, or to individuals whom Vonvon does not employ or
manage, including any third parties to whom Vonvon may disclose Personal
Information”, the terms read.
While we are not sure if this
application is worthy to access our Facebook profile, one thing is clear
though that one has to be extra cautious and be doubly sure before
allowing any application to access your Facebook profile.
North Korea is searching tourists’ laptops, web history
North Korean officials are searching visitors’ laptops, tablets, phones, and other gadgets for forbidden content.
North
Korea is, of course, an awful place to be, and not the first idea most
have for an international vacation. The nation has been trying to
increase its tourist numbers over the last couple years, however, going
so far as to offer mobile Internet access (revoked) and Internet ‘cafes’
lacking in peripherals. If neither of those things deter you from
visiting, though, there’s the latest warning from the State Department
stating, among other things, that North Korean customs will search
through your Internet browser history.
It’s no secret that North
Korea is very strict about what visitors can do and what they can bring,
but that hasn’t stopped many from smuggling content in and out. That is
becoming more difficult, however, as the nation grows more paranoid
about security amidst its push for tourists. Bringing so much as a
single paperback book could get you extra scrutiny from officials.
According
to the State Department, visitors should realize that North Korean
officials are searching visitors’ laptops, tablets, phones, and other
gadgets for forbidden content. This extends so far as to involve one’s
browser history and cookies, which are analyzed to see if you’ve
accessed anything the DPRK doesn’t like, never mind that the access took
place outside of the country.
Anything from a Bible app to adult website bookmarks could get visitors in trouble.
Of
course, there’s a whole host of other things that can get visitors in
trouble aside from having signs of banned content on a laptop. Trying to
buy something from an unapproved vendor, for example, is a no-no. So is
talking to strangers, snapping wayward pictures, saying anything in
personal phone calls that may be considered critical or negative of the
nation, and more.
