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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by itisit on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:54PM (#30169120)
The benefit, one day, is if you're a criminal whose face is detected, the car doors will lock, and you'll be driven directly to law enforcement who will be ready and waiting to apprehend you.
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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by namrog84 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:22PM (#30169507)
Although possible.

I suspect and hope there will be some push back. Imagine a counterpoint in either a bug or malicious attack where innocent person is locked in and then driven into a lake or something.

I dont think autonomous cars should be able to lock people in. The car can report to police silently, that's fine.

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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by 988747 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:00PM (#30170077)
>> The car can report to police silently, that's fine.

No, it should not do even that. You are making an assumption here that police/government always have good intentions.

What society needs is kind of power balance: law enforcement being able to catch 98% of criminals is a noble goal, but pushing that number up to 100% is not possible in democratic society, it requires totalitarian control. That's why we need to make a choice here and oppose surveillance, event if it seems well intentioned.

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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by itisit on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:38PM (#30170569)
This is basically the point I was trying to provoke. We forfeit a good bit of our privacy and autonomy with these technologies. Rather disgusting how convenience always wins.
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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by asdff on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:53PM (#30169971)
Seems like it would be a lot less dramatic to just trigger a head on collison on the highway which you could do today if you broke into the tesla fsd system.
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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by crooked-v on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:43PM (#30171418)
There's a story to that account: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xygzvz/one-star
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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by itisit on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:02PM (#30171614)
Wow...spot on! That was a fun read. I don’t think the scenario is that outlandish.
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Re:Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Fr... by wubbert on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:38PM (#30171358)
That won't ever happen. If it did, it would disproportionately affect people of color, be declared a racist "feature," and be banned.
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