It's an interesting step towards the panopticon - self driving vehicles by necessity have complete surveillance and store everything. Misdemeanors that previous

It's an interesting step towards the panopticon - self driving vehicles by necessity have complete surveillance and store everything. Misdemeanors that previously would have been dismissed as word against word are now persistent in the digital record. Dashcams are another big change here. You have no expectation of privacy in public, but do you have an expectation that everything done with vehicles nearby will be stored in data forever?