I think the request and reasoning is pretty clear in the article. Autonomous vehicles can't be given instructions by emergency personnel. They can't follow lawf

I think the request and reasoning is pretty clear in the article. Autonomous vehicles can't be given instructions by emergency personnel. They can't follow lawful orders given by a police officer – the kind of instructions that in critical situations can take the form of "do an action or you are under arrest." It should be pointed out that it is a crime to knowingly impede emergency services. I would say that the request is that these vehicles not be put onto streets without having some mechanism to prevent the examples in the article from happening, or maybe not approve their opration at all. At the risk of sounding like I don't want technological progress, it should really be pointed out that robotic vehicles aren't necessary in any way. There isn't a massive problem looking to be solved by them, they're just a capitalist optimization undertaken by rent-seeking mega-corps like GM and Google. Hiring a human driver for passenger vehicles is already one of the cheapest services you can imagine, these corporations just want to take the minimum wage salary of an Uber driver for themselves. With that in mind I think it's a fair ask of these corporations to do more to make their autonomous vehicles able to handle emergency situations where a human driver would be expected to take the instruction of a police officer or firefighter.