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Nope. When blatant law-breaking like this happens, every car that observed it will send a detailed record of the event to the police including the license plate
by infogulch 11y ago
Nope. When blatant law-breaking like this happens, every car that observed it will send a detailed record of the event to the police including the license plate. (Maybe after their passenger hits the big flashing "Report reckless driving" button.) Using street cameras the car will be automatically tracked until it stops (possibly alerting other autonomous cars to the upcoming presence of a dangerous driver which in turn drive extra defensively), where the police will arrive minutes later to arrest the driver if the infraction was serious enough or the driver will receive a letter/email with a ticket for reckless endangerment.
- EdSharkey 11y agoHmm, I suspect there is a big gray area here and not the Brave New World you describe. One can be an intensely rude driver and still fall within the law. Trolls might randomly hit their brakes hard just to see the auto-driver behind reflexively lurch and enjoy the passenger's reactions. Probably no one gets hurt, and there's no way to prove the troll wasn't legitimately trying to avoid hitting something.
- xkcd-sucks 11y agoPerhaps a "sesame credit"[0] type of thing where observers contribute driving patterns to an aggregator which generates a score and, e.g., orders 1000 pizzas/calls a SWAT team to the house of an unharmonious driver? [0]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
- leohutson 11y agoDoesn't even need to be a traffic infringement, most jurisdictions have loose catch-all minor crimes like "disturbing the peace" or "disorderly conduct", with pretty low burdens of proof.