The issue becomes pressing when there's no longer a driver override. You get in the car, and tell it where you want to go. Like a taxi.
How does the car distinguish a real policeman from a fake, who wants to rob or harm you? (I was going to say "jack your car," but that makes no sense.) Issue street officers a police-only secret code to override the car's instructions, and make it pull over? That would stay secret for milliseconds.
We (mostly) trust human taxi drivers to obey what appear to be lawful orders from law enforcement. If I knock over a liquor store, and hop into a cab, the police use flashing blue lights to convince the cabbie to pull over, so that I may be apprehended. We need the same thing for driverless cars.
Is it as simple as a flashing-blue-light detector?
The issue becomes pressing when there's no longer a driver override. You get in the car, and tell it where you want to go. Like a taxi.
How does the car distinguish a real policeman from a fake, who wants to rob or harm you? (I was going to say "jack your car," but that makes no sense.) Issue street officers a police-only secret code to override the car's instructions, and make it pull over? That would stay secret for milliseconds.
We (mostly) trust human taxi drivers to obey what appear to be lawful orders from law enforcement. If I knock over a liquor store, and hop into a cab, the police use flashing blue lights to convince the cabbie to pull over, so that I may be apprehended. We need the same thing for driverless cars.
Is it as simple as a flashing-blue-light detector?
That runs risk of replication.
Or even a real police office that might want to rob or harm someone.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-...-officer-accused-of-rape/nhwkd/#__federated=1