• a7h13f (edited 8 years ago)
    +10

    Nope. However, provisions should be put into place by which a police agency can request the GPS information from such a car. There's no need to "pull it over". Let's say a cop spots someone who he thinks is a criminal in a Google self-driving car. All he would have to do is to take down the license plate, file the appropriate paperwork, and get a full history of where the car has been in the relevant time period.

    If you give police the ability to stop a self-driving car, them that capability will inevitably be abused at the hands of corrupt law enforcement and be available to the public. If there's a switch that turns off the car, someone will steal one and reverse engineer it. The potential for abuse of automated stops of self-driving vehicles is simply too high, and there's no benefit to the technology. Why confront a criminal in a situation where he's likely to feel most cornered when you can simply obtain the car's tracking data, and knock on his door?