The new German coalition government (SPD-Green-FDP) wants to hold a conversation about collecting and sharing car 'data'.
What kind of 'data'? Well....accident data, new car development, maintenance records, parts being used, etc.
N-TV discussed this in the AM today.
Car companies happy about this? No.
Who would be handling the data? The suggestion is that some 'trusted agent' of the government would have viewing rights. The mere mention of this idea....was a turn-off for the car companies.
For the insurance companies? Well.....they kinda hint it this way....this 'data' doesn't belong the car companies themselves. In truth, it belongs to each owner of each car. The fact that you repair your brakes each and every time with ultra-cheap pads? If the insurance companies figured this out and saw that you had two accidents over a 12-year period....involving braking? Well....it might trigger them to alter your pricing for insurance.
With self-driving cars just around the corner....there's a vast amount of data that will come to exist, with no regulations currently existing to protect such data.
Typically, Germans get all hyper about the privacy of their data, and I'd suspect out of every ten Germans....seven of them would question the government over this agenda item.
I would even go and ask who 'exactly' is the trusted agent of the government? In my years of Air Force service....this trusted agent business usually turned into a massive trust issue and people ended up abusing the position.
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