Dr. jonny phd on Nostr: #Waymo has a patent for detecting if the driver of a car is doing something illegal, ...
#Waymo has a patent for detecting if the driver of a car is doing something illegal, and if so automatically call the cops. So one scenario is a robocar notices you're speeding (or maybe it gets a facial recognition match, etc.), calls the cops, tails you until they arrive. I expect the political decisions about #robocars will probably be influenced by promising cities that they can basically operate as a free expansion of their police force surveillance network.
Another part that's interesting about this patent is how it describes a normative model of driver behavior that's context and user specific. The description reads like a high tech tattler box for truckers, but since that box can be on another car, I bet insurance companies would love to buy that data. Waymo takes a read of your license plate, reports to your instance company if you drive too fast, brake too slow, etc. crunched into a risk profile.
If you get in a crash, if a waymo car is in sight it could evaluate whether the driver behaved negligently - was too slow to brake compared to its normative driver model - and thus get denied an insurance claim.
They're mobile camera platforms, not autonomous cars.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210107494A1/ 
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