Gun Control & RKBA

He wasn't quite as creative as you but he had his moments.

I considered the idea of having law enforcement able to communicate with and control a specific registered vehicle. That idea is full of hacker based rabbit holes.

Next I figured that an occupant should be responsible for disabling autonomous operation and complying. However, if the car is really autonomous the occupant may not be a qualified operator.

Who gets the ticket in this particular rabbit hole of thought is anyone's guess since an actual root cause failure may have derived from a multitude of directions or causes or possibly a cascade of effects.


OT: If you really want something to worry about, several years ago I worked for a subcontractor to a DoD contractor on the ERMP program for the UAV then called Warrior (an update of the predator). The update included improved avionics and flight control to allow the pilots to be replaced with operators and missions specialists. The aircraft would fly itself; the operators would control and assign mission objectives, targets, loiter times, altitudes and locations and collect intelligence. Not only would the operators not fly it, they wouldn't necessarily know how to fly it nor would the capability to actually control flight remotely exist at all.

I believe about half of the planned 150 some vehicles have been delivered at this point. I have no idea if the operator modifications have been included. I wonder how long it will be until surplus UAVs are sold to local police departments.