[john_other_john]

I suddenly imagined a cross function device: I don't see why dropping in a new car stereo should not hold a board like this able to process camera and sensor data for my own use, as well as aggregating for research. I'd love, for example, there be standard physical mounts for cameras and sensors, in front and tail lights, above the rearview, in wheel arches, and a data backplane. One of these, plus a display, would make a nice in car entertainment hub, and barely use the GPU abilities, which could switch to cams, or alert me to tire wear, or even ground condition. If connected to a ECU (regs ahead, sure, but..) you might damp steering input to deal, with camber, or unload the suspension at a corner if a object looked like a puncture risk. Maybe someone should make aftermarket lamp assemblies that accommodate bullet style cams. Would take some handy optical calculations. I think automotive sensing needs a boost for collecting data by affording accommodation to such retrofits, without causing people to do hardware mods, that are likely needing certification or plain ugly, and make a supplier alliance for anonymized data. Opt in, I hope, as nobody's done a good job of instilling trust much, but i'd go for it. As for Internet of Things ideas, driver driven vehicles might be able to broadcast data useful for driverless cars. The need is for retrofitting cars as much as hoping new models will sell, as this is the sort of thing that I imagine would be a option. Make it part of something people want, like strong GPU for mapping, and you might have a deal.