Your robotaxi might be a narc

In aboriginal September, 2 teenagers got into a Waymo, but past ended up successful the backmost of a constabulary car. The robotaxi institution said it detected "a usurpation of our presumption of work involving a firearm," pulled the car over, and alerted exigency services, according to the Los Angeles Times. Police arrested the passengers aft allegedly uncovering a loaded AR-style "ghost gun" successful the vehicle.

The arrests exposed a batch of unanswered questions astir privateness and autonomous vehicles, including what they are recording, what they bash with the footage, and however overmuch privateness riders should expect portion riding wrong them.

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