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Again, why would you need to authenticate yourself? As an example, you usually don't have to authenticate when you pay for something with a card -- you just au

Again, why would you need to authenticate yourself? As an example, you usually don't have to authenticate when you pay for something with a card -- you just authenticate that the card is valid / has sufficient funds. That's why fraud detection for cards exists -- because you can use a card without being the owner. Also, there are prepaid cards, and cash (assuming that still exists). As for your other idea, Minority Report beat you to it -- when the authorities find out that the protagonist they are pursuing is riding in a certain taxi-car-pod, they lock it down and try to bring it in.

mc32 14y ago
Auth to make it non-repudiable. Right now with peopled (staffed) services, one can ask to check ID, if there is a level of suspicion, that's a type of authentication, the way I see things. Since these cars would not have an "agent" they'd, given circumstances and business model, may have a need to ID people in a non-repudiable way. I wasn't trying to beat a sci-fi scenario out. Just saying that this kind of automation would make the scenario possible, given the right legal allowances. It would be both useful (from a crime-fighting POV) and also very big-brother controlling. So I guess it depends on the balance people might find acceptable.