Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco

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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