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?
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?