The Rise of the Machines - When Robots Buy Cars.
Will you wake up one day with a new car, you can't remember ordering?
So recently Volvo announced and it was reported in Motor Trade press that you can now book a test drive through Amazon stating that it was designed as part of a group of brand offering expected to “take the hassle out of running a car”.
This along with Google demonstrating last month at their ‘Tech Conference’ an extension to Google Assistant that among everyday things like booking a haircut the ‘assistant’ could interact with a business it ‘called’ and book a time and date. Announcing that it wouldn’t be long before car businesses will take calls from Google, Alexa, Apple Home-pod and Eco booking in a test drive!
I’m personally not sure about auto-assistants, given news stories about them being hacked, I’m also 100% sure that if I had one it wouldn’t be long before it tried to blackmail me!
However, this ‘rise of the machines’ poses another question, if they can all be inter-linked and share some sort of robotic-symbiosis how long before your car tells you to buy a new one, or worse still actually orders one for you?
It is genuinely concerning that this could happen, and worse still you might have absolutely no say in it.
You drive home one day and have to swerve to avoid a cat or dog and painfully clip an alloy, this is obviously upsetting to you, but what if the car got upset too?
As you are asleep teary eyed about your damaged wheel, your car is quietly talking via your Auto-Assistant and finding its self a new home! Waking up the next morning you inspect the damage and find someone from a local dealer appraising the car.
It could happen! Worse though would be the recorded and acted upon ‘private’ conversations with your partner, you could wake up one day having ordered a new car!
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