What to do when Cops pull over a driverless vehicle.

[JulienW]

Funnest Full Self Driving video. This is a riot to watch.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1512960943805841410

 

[diplomat33]

Funnest Full Self Driving video. This is a riot to watch.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1512960943805841410

Funny. But the cops are kinda idiots for apparently not knowing it is a driverless car. They can't see the sensors on the roof and the word "Cruise" on the car?

 

[Tam]

Funny. But the cops are kinda idiots for apparently not knowing it is a driverless car. They can't see the sensors on the roof and the word "Cruise" on the car?

That's why they need to fulfill their CPT (Continuing Professional Training Requirement) every 2 years to catch up with what's going on with the profession including CPR to preserve to lives of detainees (and not choking them) and of course, they should learn about EV and Autonomous Vehicles too.

Anyhow, that CPT curriculum needs to be improved but in the meantime, if an Autonomous Vehicle company wants a permit, it should train police officers as well.

 

[Tam]

...Funnest,,,

It seems a win for Cruise as no citation is needed for driving without headlights at night:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1513181598140796936

 

[drtimhill]

Funnest Full Self Driving video. This is a riot to watch.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1512960943805841410

21st technology meets baffled 19th century cops.

 

[OncomingStorm]

i wonder how long it will be before someone jailbreaks a fully/semi AV and uses it as a getaway or car or some nonsence haha... good times ahead

 

[JulienW]

Near the end you can see that the cop finally found the number to call the Support Team to remedy the situation. Here is the same cop (retired but still at it) on hold waiting and waiting and waiting for Tesla Support to talk to someone to do the same thing.

 

[BGOwner]

Sorry, just saw this and its pretty funny. Seems SFPD pulled over a self-Driving car.

Video shows what happens when a driverless car gets pulled over

A recent video shows a driverless Cruise car getting pulled over in San Francisco by police who found the vehicle didn't have a driver.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Tam]

Sorry, just saw this and its pretty funny. Seems SFPD pulled over a self-Driving car.

Not the first time.

Google FireFly was pulled over in 2015 for driving too slowly on a posted 35 MPH street (the maximum system's speed was 25 MPH). It has no human controls onboard (pedal-less, steering wheelless...)

The cop decided that it's not illegal to drive slowly on that street so no citations either.

 

[BGOwner]

ya but the initial reaction of the officer walking up to the car and not seeing anyone must be priceless.

 

[momo3605]

Funny. But the cops are kinda idiots for apparently not knowing it is a driverless car. They can't see the sensors on the roof and the word "Cruise" on the car?

I think the cops knew it was an autonomous vehicle. It was driving around with headlights off, so the cops are seen in the footage reaching in and trying to futz around with the headlight settings (though it doesn't work). I am pleasantly surprised that the AV didn't just ignore the cops and just keep going along running routes lol

 

[Krash]

(merged two threads)

 

[EVNow]

ya but the initial reaction of the officer walking up to the car and not seeing anyone must be priceless.

He must have thought it was a Tesla

 

[cwerdna]

Near the end of Autonomous Cruise car encounter with police raises questions – TechCrunch raises some interesting questions.

The most common contact people in the U.S. have with police takes the form of a traffic stop. But not all drivers are treated equally. Black drivers are almost twice as likely to be pulled over as white drivers, far too often with deadly consequences. Several experts argue that autonomous cars will de-escalate interactions with the police by, for instance, reducing investigations associated with hit-and-run offenses. But others, including Elizabeth E. Joh, a law professor at UC Davis, expect that autonomous vehicles will increase police powers if police are allowed to seize cars remotely.

“An autonomous car would be a programmable car. Perhaps speed enforcement will be a thing of the past, either because cars will be programmed to stay within the legal speed limit, or because such violations will be automatically enforced with a ticket sent to drivers’ electronic dashboards,” Joh writes in an essay on the subject. “But even in this version of the future, police will still seize cars. A person inside the autonomous car may have an outstanding arrest warrant. The police may suspect that the car contains contraband or evidence of a crime. By no longer requiring human control, autonomous cars may even encourage more types of crime to take place within them.”

While no company developing autonomous vehicles has indicated that they’d provide law enforcement this sort of access, police might make the case for it, citing the confusion that can arise from incidents like the Cruise traffic stop. Cruise’s isn’t the first autonomous car to get pulled over — that distinction goes to a Google prototype in 2015. But as autonomous vehicle developers increasingly deploy their fleets on public roads, the issue is more likely to come to the fore.

 

[EVNow]

Near the end of Autonomous Cruise car encounter with police raises questions – TechCrunch raises some interesting questions.

Interesting questions.

Police won’t be able to search occupant luggage any longer based on skin color (which they can now do using broken tail light excuse).

OTOH, all usage will be recorded and tracked. So, not so great for privacy either.