Transmitting all the car's imagery to servers is an R&D activity. Google downloads all that from their vehicles to train their machine learning systems, but training is an offline process. Production vehicles might occasionally upload "interesting" imagery they didn't recognize, or data from situations where there was trouble, but there's no need to upload it all.
Talking to other cars is different from communicating over the internet.
FTA: "the true transformation isn’t the car, but the underlying digital technology"
See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... for a better explanation than I can ever make. Think about it, the abuse that can happen to minorities and poorer elements of society will be much more difficult to execute. Even stealing from people under forfeiture laws will be much more difficult if the officer cannot find a valid reason to stop you for his otherwise invalid purpose
Yes, that's going to be interesting. I'm waiting for an event when some small-town sheriff pulls over a Waymo self-driving car without justification, and Waymo shows up in court with lawyers, full imagery, LIDAR scans, GPS info, a complete video reconstruction of the event, and the browsing history of the sheriff.
Warrant no transportation.
Late on Child support can use the car until you pay.
Your had sex with a minor when you were 18. sorry you the car won't drive within 100 ft of a school.
That's not a very high barrier, that's less than the distance from a parking spot to most destinations. A few km would be more effective.
I doubt it. I don't think consumers would tolerate a car that always obeyed the speed limit. And if a self-driving car did, it could be pulled over for impeding traffic.
Speed limits can be changed to something more reasonable, and humans won't worry about the speed it goes but the time and cost.
I'm cautious of this number because the camera and sensor feeds are very often reduced heavily in resolution and then passed for processing, so if they are considering raw uncompressed sensor streams then that's not really representative of the theoretical stored size of the data or the size of the data actually processed.
[0]: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/self-driving-cars-big-...
IOT security is a nightmare, I don't expect self driving cars to be much better in this respect, they're essentially a griefers wet dream.
