Law enforcement authorities in San Francisco pulled a self-drive cruise hatchback earlier this month to move with the headlights. The incident video, which was first distributed on Instagram, showed a police vehicle and a police officer approached an autonomous cruise car on the city road at night. Officers can be seen walking to the left of the car – the party where a police officer in North America is generally safe in the assumption they will find human drivers.
The clerk can be seen looking confused, talking about the shortage of different cars in it. This car is displayed a few meters ahead and stops in an open parking lot near the traffic light. The police chased, then tried to contact the Human Representative Team Cruise to sort this problem. However, the situation has attracted several interesting responses and opinions about social media, starting with the point where the vehicle seems to avoid the law.
The SFPD versus an automated car
It seems that a joint comment from the first time the video is a cruise vehicle appears trying to avoid the police in the brave moment of ignorance. Cruise responded to a comment like that, tweeting that the autonomous vehicle stopped in the “nearest safe location, as intended.” In a statement shared with the BBC, a cruise representative suggested that the reason the car was drawn in the first place – the main damage – was the result of human mistakes.
The company, which began testing the self-driving robot-taxi service in San Francisco in February this year, said the car was equipped with a mic so they could listen and respond to sirens. The company also has an escalation team with a special helpline number that attend questions from law enforcement officials. And if necessary, the team can complete tasks like not open the door from the autonomous vehicle door and bring it to stop in a safe place. This was not the first time a car was automatically pulled by the police for violating the law, and it would not be the last.
Policing automated cars is a brand new issue
At present, there is no national police protocol for the de-escalation scenario involving self-driving cars in the United States. Self-driving cars that maintain comprehensive audio-visual records of all interactions and provide records to law enforcement allows to help accelerate the actions of the police, and the police must be made aware that autonomous cars legally operate in their districts. Autonomous cars riding street streets in 2022 generally have the ability to recognize road signs, lights, and dangers of all kinds, but errors occur. It’s hard even for the most advanced artificial intelligence today to predict how human drivers will act at certain times.
As the automation of import duties is enacted on city streets throughout the United States, as well as the questions raised on whether automatic police interactions with autonomous cars must also be a concern topic. Elon musk’s question about the explanation of human-driven vehicles also remains a topic that is worthy of exploring.
