It's only a matter of time before some stupid kids start jumping in the way of self-driving cars to make them brake hard. That's when we'll see the anti-pedestrian regulations appear, by my estimation.
i always bring up the examples of thak thak gangs in delhi to show actual threats which become worse with autonomous cars.
i suspect people in the first world who believe in autonomous cars are exposed to a very limited set of uses for roads and cars.
India is the place where the autonomous car dream goes to die.
after that every downgrades the idea to lower than level 5 driving.
Honestly, the 21st century is basically clickbait: You won't believe what happens next!
If carjacking becomes a problem the cars will figure it out and start locking all the doors. Or if the car is unoccupied, let the carjaker in, then notify the nearest police station it is coming in with a criminal.
I'll just say that it is an option with some merit. Depending on the technology and the local situation I might or might not be in favor of it.
9-60-060 Pedestrian crossing. [...] (b) No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield.
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/cdot/supp_info/o...
So you get get punished if it hits you? Or how does this work...
Ever since self-driving cars started being a thing I keep being reminded of this book, and am half-waiting for at lease that part of it to come true.
I've been searching for a bit now, and I still haven't find it. I think it was from the 70s or 80s.
Of course that won't stop the behavior completely but it won't be a free for all either.
A situation with pedestrians only doesn't require those traffic controls.
A situation with motor vehicles only does require them, otherwise there will be an increase in the number of accidents and unacceptable congestion.
The mixture of the two requires them only because of the presence of motor vehicles.
It's very simple, really.
the whole "car detects obstacle in an untrafficed area, stops, door is opened, passenger gets out, passenger gets back in, changes destination to a place not proximate to anywhere they've ever been before" process also sounds like the sort of thing that would justifiably raise a bit of a red flag. maybe not an automated call to 911, but it should probably dump all records to the cloud and trigger a call from an onstar operator or similar.
Besides, if we're talking about this happening in the "bad" parts of town, the car can call 911 and broadcast is position all it likes. There won't be any immediate response.
Finally, people who do this long enough will eventually figure out what to disconnect to allow themselves enough time to do what they want with the car- like today's car thieves do with modern car alarms.