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A comment on California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present.

Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by russellbeattie on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:13PM (#16477382)
I wonder if it'd be easy to steal one of these cars? Drop a black-cloth Faraday-cage net over the top of the car as it is driving by... It'll lose sight and radio communication, so will naturally stop and be at your mercy! I'm not a car thief, so I'm not sure what I'd do after, but it was just a thought...
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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by adrianmonk on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:26AM (#16481808)
What do you do after you've stopped it? Now you have a parked car, you don't have the ability to drive it away. (If you did, you would have skipped the faraday cage net.)

So you need a tow truck to actually take the car into your control where you can do with it what you will (sell it, etc.). But if you had a tow truck, you could just steal any parked car, so how is the self-driving car worse off?

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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by tim333 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:37AM (#16480925)
Dropping a black-cloth Faraday-cage on a moving car is not what I would call easy.
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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by kerbalspacepro on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:06AM (#16483416)
Being not sure what you'd do after is a pretty important part of your plan
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Re:California to allow testing of self-driving cars without ... by betterworldb on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:07PM (#16477893)
Relevant XKCD? https://m.xkcd.com/1958/
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