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1552 JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS, VOL. 8, NO. 6, JUNE 2013<br />
The Critical Legal Contention under the<br />
Challenge of Information Age and the<br />
Predom<strong>in</strong>ant Social Interests Concern for<br />
Develop<strong>in</strong>g Intelligent Vehicle Telematics <strong>in</strong> the<br />
United States<br />
Fa-Chang Cheng<br />
National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology/Graduate Institute of Science and Technology Law,<br />
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan<br />
Email: fachang1@hotmail.com<br />
Wen-Hs<strong>in</strong>g Lai *<br />
National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology/Dept. of Computer and Communication Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g,<br />
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan<br />
Email: lwh@nkfust.edu.tw<br />
Abstract—Intelligent Vehicle Telematics has been a<br />
promis<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>dustry <strong>in</strong> the world. This new development of<br />
telecommunication technology has emerged with some legal<br />
concerns, especially <strong>in</strong> the liability for failure of safety<br />
devises and the protection of <strong>in</strong>formation privacy with<strong>in</strong><br />
Intelligent Vehicle Telematics. The purpose of this article is<br />
to ga<strong>in</strong> experiences from the discussion for these concerns <strong>in</strong><br />
academic papers and related cases with<strong>in</strong> the United States,<br />
<strong>in</strong> order to depict the possible solution for safety related<br />
legal concerns and the protection of <strong>in</strong>formation privacy<br />
which is based upon not only the concern of <strong>in</strong>formation age<br />
but also the concern of national security with regard to<br />
develop<strong>in</strong>g Intelligent Vehicle Telematics. The purpose of<br />
this article is <strong>in</strong>tended to offer some valuable reference to<br />
other countries which are also <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the development<br />
of <strong>in</strong>telligent Vehicle Telematics.<br />
Index Terms—Intelligent Vehicle Telematics, product<br />
liability, strict liability, <strong>in</strong>formation privacy<br />
I. INTRODUCTION<br />
The Intelligent Vehicle Telematics is highly valued by<br />
the government <strong>in</strong> the world as hav<strong>in</strong>g a lot of beneficial<br />
potential to the transportation <strong>in</strong>frastructure <strong>in</strong> such<br />
sovereignty. The features of safety design are critical to<br />
the Intelligent Vehicle Telematics and have some<br />
significant mean<strong>in</strong>g to the legal <strong>in</strong>frastructure. Those<br />
safety devises may <strong>in</strong>crease the safety of transportation<br />
which benefits to the society as a whole. Conversely; the<br />
failure of such safety devises may cause a lot of trouble.<br />
Manuscript received September 20, 2012; revised September 20,<br />
2012; accepted September 20, 2012.<br />
* Correspond<strong>in</strong>g author<br />
Therefore, the liability for system provider and devise<br />
manufacture (distributor) is one significant safety legal<br />
issue with regard to Intelligent Vehicle Telematics. Apart<br />
from the safety related legal concerns, the protection of<br />
privacy <strong>in</strong> the operation of Intelligent Vehicle Telematics<br />
is also another critical legal issue for Intelligent Vehicle<br />
Telematics. The <strong>in</strong>tention of this article is to <strong>in</strong>troduce<br />
the concept of <strong>in</strong>formation privacy <strong>in</strong> the United States<br />
and br<strong>in</strong>g up the suggestion of how to comprise the<br />
conflictions between protect<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>formation privacy and<br />
other legal <strong>in</strong>terests. S<strong>in</strong>ce this paper is ma<strong>in</strong>ly talk<strong>in</strong>g<br />
about the concerns from the prospective of the United<br />
States because due to the United states advanc<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />
Intelligent Vehicle Telematics research field, except the<br />
general technology description of Intelligent Vehicle<br />
Telematics, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g the safety features, <strong>in</strong> the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g,<br />
this article will center the discussion on these concerns to<br />
academic papers and related cases with<strong>in</strong> the United<br />
States, <strong>in</strong> order to depict the possible solution for safety<br />
related legal concerns and the protect<strong>in</strong>g privacy concerns<br />
with regard to develop<strong>in</strong>g Intelligent Vehicle Telematics<br />
to other follow<strong>in</strong>g countries.<br />
II. THE TECHNOLOGY OF INTELLIGENT VEHICLE<br />
TELEMATICS AND ITS SAFETY FEATURES<br />
Vehicle Telematics is the <strong>in</strong>tegrated use of<br />
telecommunications and <strong>in</strong>formatics with<strong>in</strong> road vehicles.<br />
The objectives of Intelligent Vehicle Telematics are to<br />
improve safety, reduce traffic congestion, fuel<br />
consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, and <strong>in</strong>crease<br />
comfort and convenience or even enterta<strong>in</strong>ment, and the<br />
future trends focus on mak<strong>in</strong>g automobiles greener,<br />
smarter, and merg<strong>in</strong>g transportation and <strong>in</strong>formation<br />
© 2013 ACADEMY PUBLISHER<br />
doi:10.4304/jcp.8.6.1552-1559