Self-driving cars will be controllable by the Police.

The US National Institute of Justice, the RAND Corporation and the Police Executive Research Forum want to give law enforcement real-time access to autonomous vehicles so they can obey law enforcement directions.

Last month, this panel of experts identified 17 points that autonomous driving systems should follow against law enforcement and some of these are quite contested by the public.

Here are some of the most disputed points:

• Possibility for law enforcement to verify the authorization of a vehicle to operate in automated mode.
• Possibility for law enforcement to communicate with vehicles in automated mode. Basically a backdoor for controlling the self-driving car.
• The possibility of self-driving vehicles to make data available to law enforcement agencies for investigating accidents and other incidents.
• The definition of guidelines for the interaction with autonomous vehicles that run in automated mode.
• Develop descriptions of standard behaviors (such as stepping away from the road in a safe place) for self-driving cars when followed by police.

Practically the police want to acquire control of self-driving cars, identify them, use them as a source of evidence in the event of accidents or even for other events. Practically and self-driving cars would be the tool with which the police can check people's behavior and eventually stop them, or even take them to police stations. Do you remember the self-driving cars of Minority Report?

There is a great danger to individual privacy and freedom. Sooner or later, legislation will be needed in this area to define how far authorities can go to intrude on personal privacy.

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