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I can imagine a much scarier scenario... You use whatever app to summon a car. You give it a destination, and instead, the car makes a detour to the local poli

by kefka 11y ago

I can imagine a much scarier scenario... You use whatever app to summon a car. You give it a destination, and instead, the car makes a detour to the local police station. the address you entered is in a higher crime rate locality, and therefore the car owner approved further "screening". So the car goes to the local police station for a routine search of the car (authorized by car owner) and a dog search of you... That kind of future is one I am worried about.

anexprogrammer 11y ago
There was a short story cropped up, I think here on HN, a few weeks back with exactly that scenario. My search-fu fails to find you a link.
- kefka 11y ago
  You're right. I wasn't sure if it was here, reddit, or somewhere else. IIRC, it also had a quadcopter that jammed GPS or something, and the auto-taxi drove through a bridge and fell in the water.
- shinykitten 11y ago
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profeta 11y ago
just because the car owner allow search of his property, it does not make your property available. and i am also pretty sure even a bad lawyer could get you a criminal kidnap case out of this.
- bduerst 11y ago
  Hah. Has anyone been able to uphold a "You agree to being abducted" in a terms of service before?
  - dragonwriter 11y ago
    It's not, legally, abduction when you are in an airliner and the pilot reroutes because of a security incident; why would it be in a single passenger commercial automated vehicle?
    - bduerst 11y ago
      Because you can't just safely step off of a plane? Come on, that's a terrible analogy. Taxi cabs can't suddenly re-route you to the police station against your will.
- dragonwriter 11y ago
  Probably not when the TOS of the autocar service includes consent to such security-related rerouting.
maxerickson 11y ago
I'm not sure it is so bad for technology to force us to confront our ideas about justice head on. From a ridiculous bullshit standpoint, arrest by autocar isn't so far off from stop and frisk.

by kefka 11y ago

anexprogrammer 11y ago

There was a short story cropped up, I think here on HN, a few weeks back with exactly that scenario. My search-fu fails to find you a link.

kefka 11y ago
You're right. I wasn't sure if it was here, reddit, or somewhere else. IIRC, it also had a quadcopter that jammed GPS or something, and the auto-taxi drove through a bridge and fell in the water.
shinykitten 11y ago
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profeta 11y ago

just because the car owner allow search of his property, it does not make your property available. and i am also pretty sure even a bad lawyer could get you a criminal kidnap case out of this.

bduerst 11y ago
Hah. Has anyone been able to uphold a "You agree to being abducted" in a terms of service before?
- dragonwriter 11y ago
  It's not, legally, abduction when you are in an airliner and the pilot reroutes because of a security incident; why would it be in a single passenger commercial automated vehicle?
  - bduerst 11y ago
    Because you can't just safely step off of a plane? Come on, that's a terrible analogy. Taxi cabs can't suddenly re-route you to the police station against your will.
dragonwriter 11y ago
Probably not when the TOS of the autocar service includes consent to such security-related rerouting.

maxerickson 11y ago

I'm not sure it is so bad for technology to force us to confront our ideas about justice head on. From a ridiculous bullshit standpoint, arrest by autocar isn't so far off from stop and frisk.