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They have emergency override controls and trained procedures around it for elevators; I don’t see much of a leap for autonomous cars, assuming the override process isn’t itself ridiculous.

Give firefighters a way to completely take control for 10 miles or something with a relatively low barrier to entry seems like a perfect way to eliminate vast numbers of weird scenarios

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The law is that vehicles need to give right of way to emergency vehicles. If autonomous cars repeatedly demonstrate that they cannot do that, then take their license away, just like you would for a natural person. Why do legal persons get to externalize the difficulty of their autonomous driving problem onto the police and fire departments (and the affected citizenry)?

There are ao many reasons that comparison does not work.

I hate this kind of low effort comment. Go ahead and list a few of them if there are so many.

the method will leak eventually subjecting all selfdriving cars to dos attacks

The potential for abuse of a car driving around with nobody in it is massive. The thing is you can already DoS them with a knife. Just poke a little hole in the tires and that thing isn't going anywhere. You don't even need to book a ride or even get in it.

Sure, but you don’t need to handover full capability for it to be sufficient. That’s why I noted an arbitrary limit on mileage once the procedure is engaged — you can imagine all sorts of arbitrary other limitations; eg once in 24 hrs, limited featureset, auto-enabled tracking, flags to server that it’s been engaged, etc.

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