05/11/2011 Click

Those are the headlines. Now it is How good a driver are you? Would

This week Click hits the road two- Test some technology that promises

to cut your insurance as long as you are not a maniac behind the

wheel. We are talking security with the Foreign Secretary in London.

Can politicians really hope to take and the Wild Wild Web that is the -

- Klee tame and the Wild Wild West that is the Wild Wild Web. Welcome

to Click. Most of us, including me, think that we are pretty good

drivers. We can cope with day-to- day road conditions and give

passengers a comfortable ride. What is a piece of technology that can

be fitted to your car that can tell you how good you are behind the

appeal? You would be nervous. That is why you should think yourself

lucky that you are not going to do what I am about to do. Let me show

you what is beneath the dashboard - - behind the dashboard of this car.

This full measure my driving skills and send the information to my

insurance company. The idea is simple, better drivers should pay

lower insurance premiums. Those who are not so good should pay more.

The box plots my position every second and measures the quality of

my braking, speeding and manoeuvring. I can see how well I

am doing by keeping my eyes on the red, yellow and green and green the

dashboard. It is a bit disconcerting that there is a box

which I can see which is constantly judging how well I am driving. I

can't help but glance to see what colour the lighters. In the future,

if connected to the central computer, the box can also send

diagnostic information to my roadside recovery company so they

can provide assistance even before my car breaks down. So for the

lights have been mainly green with a little bit of Orange. I'm going

to show you what it takes to make them go red. Mirror, mirror, mirror

and break. -- brake. That went better than my driving test. Here

is my scorecard for the journey. Typically an insurance company Bull

judge your driving over a period of time, not just one trip. Even after

that emergency stop, it doesn't look like I did too badly. I am

with the managing director of the company that designed the box.

Paulo. Do you think that most people's insurance premiums will go

down would do you think it will stop them from going up? This

technology allows you to share how you drive. If you are no good

driver, you can reduce your insurance premium. At this styptic

-- as this technology increases, it will be used to avoid those

situations. There are other devices around which record driving data.

They do more than help picture of premium down. If the worst happens

and you are involved in an accident, they can help the authorities work

out what happened. We are all familiar with these so-called black

boxes used in aircraft which give valuable insight into exactly what

went on in the minutes leading up to a crash. You might be surprised

to hear that similar technology already exists and cars. What

started more than a decade ago as the control unit for airbags has

now developed into a device which plugs into the car's computer

system and monitors everything from the accelerator pedal to the

indicators. It is called an event data recorder. This data is not

actually kept in motor cars at the moment. This is the type of

information that could tell an experienced accident investigator

like this man exactly what happened. To distil accident investigation

uses the tyre marks than the damage that has been left. -- traditional.

With the introduction of anti-lock brakes, skid marks have disappeared.

With the Steering Systems, swear marks a disappeared. We have less

and less dated to use. -- data. These points are being addressed.

When we have eyewitnesses, pretend not to be very good but this is a

fact, they will see something and interpreted within their own life

experiences, they might actually tell us something that didn't

really happened in the way that they describe did. These data

recorders will address issues like that. In my opinion, accidents and

the settlements involved with them will be settled in a much fairer

manner because of the availability of good, solid, reliable data.

2006, a Range Rover crashed into this woman's car. It left for brain

damage. A court case of the first ever conviction obtained with data

collected from a black box. It proved that the other driver was

driving at 70 mph in a 30 mph zone. The conviction was only possible

because he was driving an American car and the devices are not only

common there, they are regulated. The type of data that is kept is

standardised. The EU is now exploring something called Project

Veronica which will examine how the devices could be introduced in

member states. Crash investigators often go to great lengths to Show

Court how one incident happened, including creating three-

dimensional representations of the scene from various vantage points.

How about getting what was captured live on the deal as it happens? --

on video. This is the type of technology that DHL has installed

in over 600 of the straps. Manoeuvring these beasts is no easy

job. -- of the struts. Bury accident can cost be company a lot

of money in compensation. There are sensors which monitor unusual

motion. The camera records the entire journey and keeps the 30

seconds surrounding any sudden manoeuvres or stops. Understanding

who is at fault for an accident is key for us. Whether it is one of

our drivers are a third party involved. The key benefit of that

is the camera technology provides that through images on the screen.

It does not rely on people's recollection. Restored very early

in the process. Insurance schemes - - insurance claims can go on for

months. We have to establish liability. The technology of

forward facing cameras reduces the risk of that. A dedicated device

like this can be installed in any vehicle for around �300. There are

smart phone apps which do something similar using a GPS locater and

other devices. As well as pushing a our insurance premiums, accidents

also cost the country. Road closures due to accidents cost the

UK economy over �1 billion last year. At this crash testing track,

a collision between a car and a wooden dummy... Is being used to

demonstrate some brand new three- dimensional scanners which the

recently adopted by UK police. The promise to drastically reduce the

time it takes to document the crash scene. The scanner can record more

than 30 million data points and won 360 degree sweep and use that

detail to create an image of an accident side from different

viewpoints. It will mark the position of the vehicles and the

layout of the junction. The whole road has to be recorded. That would

take us 60-75 minutes. The scanner can do that in 20 minutes. A road

closure costs about �100,000 an hour. On average, we are saving 90

minutes for every road closure of using a scanner. Monitoring

technology like this, in the future, should not only help the time it

takes to settle an accident case, it should stop false insurance

claims, hopefully bringing insurance costs down for all was.

What do you think about all this? Would you be prepared to have your

driving monitored? You could have Chiba, or possibly more expensive

insurance premiums. -- chipper. Now it is time for this week's tech

news. A survey in the United States suggests that many parents lied

about their children's Agis to help them create Facebook accounts. The

minimum age for the side is their team. More than 50 % of the parents

of 12 year-olds who were asked know full well that their children have

accounts, probably because 80 % of them helped to sign their mum.

Giggle is now heading indoors. -- Google. St few inside gives a 360

degree view of selected Businesses in a number of countries. Privacy

activists, fear not. Unlike Google Streetview, participation is

voluntary. Google itself may be getting some

competition from a DIY enthusiast who found the blueprints for this

drone online. He is using it to take aerial shots of people's

properties. He is hoping to sell on the shops to estate agents to one

bespoke short of luxury houses. And finally, following the

announcement that there is now 7 billion of us, a Dutch company is

showing something that might help to feed everyone, indoor gardens.

They are controlled by PC Eljero Elia. The company says -- PCs. The

company says they produce less carbon emissions and do not produce

pesticides. -- do not use pesticides.

I love the Internet, I really do. These days it is easy to feel a bit

jaded by it. It is a constant battle to keep the legions of cyber

criminals at bay. How to deal with the challenges of the online world?

The British government has held a high-profile gathering to try and

find out. We sent our correspondent down there.

Welcome to the London conference on cyberspace. I have not used that

term for the best part of a decade. Delegates from over 60 countries

IKEA. They are considering everything from Priddis sake and

freedom of expression down to the big issues like security.

Governments are finding themselves under attack more than ever before.

For evidence, look at this week's news headlines. Based book reveals

there are 60,000 fake log and attends every day. A security form

has announced that a hacker traced to China recently tried to steal

secrets from 48 chemical companies. Governments themselves face

constant attacks on their computers, sometimes suspected to be from

hackers doing the bidding of foreign states. Conference

delegates were told it was a grave situation. Every day we see

attempts on an industrial scale to steal government secrets,

information of interest to nation states, not just commercial

organisations, --. Highly sophisticated techniques are being

employed. There was an attempt on the Foreign Office system itself

this year. These are attacks on the national interest. They are

unacceptable and we will respond to them as robustly as we would with

The public were also invited the to provide suggestions through Twitter

and Facebook. I'm not certain what proportion of those got through but

on the eve of the conference I got the chance to put some of my own

and to the chairman, William Hague. What are you hoping to achieve

because there are plenty of conferences, international

gatherings, that discuss big issues in cyberspace and cyber crime? Why

is this different? I hope this will create some momentum towards

acceptable norms of behaviour and bring together governments at the

senior level. I hope it will create a succession of such conferences.

It will get us towards the acceptable norms of behaviour in

cyberspace. Not been particularly concrete? A lot of high prepare --

high-profile people talking but no big treaty. There was talk of a

Geneva Convention in cyberspace. would be difficult if not

impossible to get to that in one short conference but, in any case,

a treaty is not the answer. There are so many countries involved in

so many people involved who are not countries, who are criminal

networks, who are companies and they are not subjected to countries

signing a treaty. That is a big problem - how to get collectives,

who take it upon themselves to attack high-profile corporations,

acting as vigilantes? Not to mention enterprises acting for

profit. Companies revealed to be selling website filtering software

to oppressive regimes like Syria, despite a US embargo. Because we

cannot do everything at once does not mean we should not do something,

given that the exponential rise in its side her attacks, increasing

attacks on individuals and companies, it means we must have a

higher level of dialogue. -- cyber. Cyberspace is not something just

for governments, that business and academia are involved as well. All

that is happening this week. what are the greatest challenges in

creating a positive and coherent internet for people to use? Having

a common sense about how to protect privacy. That is very important.

The rights to intellectual property. While, at the same time,

maintaining that front momentum towards freedom and freedom of

expression. That is one of the great challenges that governments

must see towards social networks, which have played an important role

in revolutions, such as in the Arab world. Some people might not want

that kind of freedom. Pushing things in that direction and trying

to ensure there is freedom of expression on the internet and

freedom of expression off-line. It remains a great challenge. What of

the great challenges is in the quality of access. That is on the

agenda of the conference but realistically, how can that be

tackled when you have countries like Liberia would low internet

penetration? It does not just come down to money. You're right.

Liberia, not many people connected. Iceland, 95% of people connected.

In the end, it comes down to the technical infrastructure but that

is something, as we look at economic corporations at the G20,

how we spend that development aid. That kind of access is something we

can take into account. One last question. What does the Foreign

Secretary used in a personal capacity in terms of technology?

Quite a variety. I used Twitter regular the through my iPhone are

all my iPad. I used my iPad a good deal to keep in touch with the news

but I get a lot of the news through the Foreign Office. William Hague.

Well, well, well. Who would have thought? What do you think? Do you

think he's talking shops consult the challenges of the internet?

Send us your thoughts. Now, we are massive advance of karaoke. It does

not to last street cred much good. Serious be, you should hear Richard

Taylor and Kate Russell at a Christmas party. Summer loving? I

do not think so. Given Kate likes to make random noises, I am not

surprised by her first recommendation. Here is Webscape.

Hands up if you've ever wished you had the guts to go on X-Factor.

This website is your chance, the chance to record songs in the hope

that fellow vocalists will vote you up the charts. It is not just about

singing. If you are a budding musician, you can showcase your

talents here as well. If you are feeling very brave, you can add

video. Looking at the quality of contributions, that is not

something I am prepared to do, especially on local television. I

know for a fact that some of you have managed to do it justice.

There is the chance to share your track Ready usual social champ

channels. People can shower you with compliments or in my case,

tell you to shut up. If you're not ready to subject bellowed -- the

world at your singing voice, you can download a backing track. The

first track is free to try out and after that, you will have to pay

99p for each new one. If you fancy your hand at running a city, why

not try a via virtual city in your hand with this real-time strategy

application on Android. Virtual City is not going to win any prizes

for originality. Your goal is to manage the day-to-day functions of

a city with point and click actions to keep everything running ticket

the book. -- tickety-boo. Although it bills itself as a free

application, you get the first six levels freed and then you have to

pay. This kind of game with tedious repetitive tasks like clearing the

streets of garbage and stocking the shops is definitely an acquired

taste. If you like against like SimCity and Roller-coaster Tycoon,

you will find this a well rounded part of the genre. As you progress,

you will unlock more buildings and increase your wealth. Keeping a

growing population of imaginary citizens very happy indeed. Despite

the small screen been a bit fiddly, Virtual cutbacks City does not

disappoint. I wish I could muster the same level of enthusiasm for

keeping my own home as well stocked with Palai. -- pie. If you're

travelling abroad, one of the best ways is to -- to soft but local

cuisine is to eat where the locals eat. But what about beating with a

local. That is the premise behind this site. Just sign up and specify

your terms of being a guest and a host. Then connect through the

social platform. It is quite new so it will take time for a decent

community to growth but a great start has been made. You obviously

need to make special care when meeting with a stranger, especially

if you're on your own but there is also the option to dine in a local

restaurant if you do not want to invite a stranger into your home.

Various places on the web celebrated the 75th birthday of TV

this week. Vision and sound are on. The station goes on the air.

there is another, far more momentous anniversary happening

this weekend. Welcome to Click on- line. Yes, this is the 600 at this

third of your favorite Technology Show, Click. -- 600th episode.

We've seen some big changes over the air, some bigger than others,

and had spoken with anyone who is anyone in the world of technology.

I wonder what we will be talking about in another 600 episodes. Kate

Russell there, done for another week. If you would like to suggest

some things for a future Webscape, just get in touch with us. You can

find us on Twitter. Everything on this week's programme is on the

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