Car to Car Communications

Things and the Internet of Things.  The relationships of Things to Things is rapidly changing as a function of the ability of a Thing to communicate directly with another Thing.

I use the word Thing with a capital "T".  Grammatically that may be (T)otaly correct.  How so?  "Thing" is becoming a proper noun.  Study the linguistics of a proper noun.  A deep study here: 

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/535201/the-face-detection-algorithm-set-to-revolutionize-image-search/

Forgive me for not hyper-linking.  The blogger app does not seem to have that functionality.

Basically, a proper noun is a specific person, place or thing.  In object oriented language it is defined as an instance of a class, a unique instance with a specific identity.  Like a one dollar bill with a serial number giving it a unique identity among the class of all dollar bills.

This is going to be a good post when I get to the point, which may take awhile because I am on vacation in Austalia and it is raining.

Perhaps in New Age linguistics and grammer things with a specific unique identity by virtue of a unique communication ID will be referred to in text form by its class name with a capital letter hyper - link capital letter going to its specific unique identifier on the Internet of Things for anyone wanting to know exactly what specific unique thing is being addressed.

In the future car to car communication requires that every car have a identifier address.  This will take the place of a license plate attached to a car, which is easily removable.  Perhaps it will be a VIN number.  Because there will be a business interest in the car and the owner/driver it will certainly be a unique identifier of the car and probably linked to the owning entity as well as the unique identity of the car driver at any given time as well as the spatial location of the car in real time or any given time in a history record.  Progressive Insurance is currently a leader in this direction with a device that attaches to a vehicle computer system.

Here is my prediction and where this blog entry is going (among various other directions at the same time, each with its own unique conceptual identifier existing only in my own head):

Some specific date in the future cars will no longer have license plates on them.  They, their owners and drivers as well as insurance companies, state of registry and all other related information will be associated with the vehicle's unique identity on the Internet of things.

Because a vehicle life span is longer than the time period necessary to introduce this car to car ID for all vehicles a dongle will be retrofit to all older vehicles having the computer diagnostic system that has been a standard feature since about the year 2000 or so.  The dongle will broadcast ID and GPS constantly in real time.

In this future system there will be a security level structure applied with various levels of controlled access on a need to know basis. This structure will be a challenge regarding privacy issues and who needs to know.

The great American icon of the freedom of the open road will be a memory existing in the future only in period piece movies that romanticize what driving a car used to be just like we romanticize the Old West now.

"Old West" being a proper noun because we all have a specially unique concept attached to that term identifying a mythological period of time just like the future will describe this period of time as the "Old Privacy".

The times they are a-changing.