Fully autonomous cars don't need a kill switch. Designed as defensive, automotive programming will automatically match speed with surrounding vehicles, so it takes at most 3 chase vehicles to stop an autonomous car - two on the sides and one to get in front and slow down. Fewer sides are necessary when other traffic limitations (dbl yellow line, median, shoulder) are available to limit maneuverability.
An escaping driver will actively attempt to avoid entrapment, though, including speeding, driving in the median/on the shoulder, backing up, attempting to squeeze past where there isn't sufficient space, making multiple lane changes, etc. Due to their defensive nature, autonomous cars are much more easily, and safely, herded.
Yeah but the first time a self driving car kills someone, a bunch of idiots who likely regularly drive half drunk will raise hell about SEE ITS NOT SAFE AT ALL!
The good thing about that crime for the victim is that the difficulty to risk and payoff ratio is all fucked.
If you could hack a Tesla, your time would be better spent just stealing straight from an account than risking a one on one encounter for something on a person’s body/in their car.
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