Android inventor Andy Rubin working on free dashcam

Android inventor Andy Rubin working on free dashcam

PanARMENIAN.Net - Android inventor and ex-Googler Andy Rubin said that his company is making a dashcam with a unique business model: users will get the hardware for free, but will have to hand over the camera's data in return, Engadget reports.

It's not clear why Playground wants to make that bargain, although one possibility is that it'll create a visual map of streets around the world.

Not that Playground will necessarily be a one-trick pony. Rubin says he's working on other ideas that he's "not willing to talk about" at the moment. Even if those don't materialize any time soon, though, the dashcam project might shake up the tech industry. Right now, dashcams are mostly popular in Russia and other countries where on-the-road insurance fraud is a significant problem. This could democratize dashcams by making them available to anyone who's willing to give up a bit of privacy in return for proof of innocence.

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