While the camera takes for granted signals that read the yellow light as accelerating instead of decelerating, the flashing of the camera is more likely to prompt the driver to step on the accelerator than a real safety tool.
Even with seemingly handy techniques, when you happen to find yourself on the wrong lane and you have no other way to respond and respond, you're going to be severely punished: receiving a very detailed Letters, including the date and time your violation occurred, as well as your license plate number, along with a penalty notice.
So with all this in mind, one can not help but wonder if robots like the unmanned police car really need on the streets to hunt down every crime committed by people. Ford seems to give a positive answer.
Ford car manufacturer recently submitted a driverless police car patent application, the car not only has the driverless features, but also hide themselves, in the discovery of illegal behavior to go out for the hunt.This looks very cool, this A car is like a robotic policeman who finds violations, just as hunting for prey, hunts down people who commit an offense.
Pros and cons of unmanned police cars
It seems inevitable that such a scenario will occur, and although the initial response may be intense, the system offers some real benefits.
Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and assistant professor of engineering at the University of South Carolina, said: "Automated traffic management certainly has advantages and disadvantages that can reduce the security risk for police and drivers . "It is also a potential force multiplier in the police department that allows the police to handle more urgent cases as the robot monitors speeding, and similar situations have emerged, such as camera-based traffic monitors. Of course, driverless Police cars can also reduce the workload of the police during this process.
But some experts, and even some environmentalists, quickly put some caution on Ford's unmanned police concept.
Smith said: 'Autopilot cars may reduce the chances of police educating or investigating offenders, and there is already a more efficient form of automated enforcement that many people in the United States are dissatisfied with. '
Similarly, a police officer with 27 years of law enforcement experience said the idea was "a bit worrisome" in terms of police-community relations,
Brian Acken, senior international law enforcement policy analyst for RTI, a nonprofit research organization, said: "The use of automated law enforcement to replace the face-to-face communication between police officers and citizens seems to suggest It is always low-level and routine for these traffic violations.When many of the traffic violations are fraudulent or have received a warning, other areas may need to provide emergency medical services and may even need to start a search warrant or determine the likely cause of the arrest. The point here is , We need to consider all the possible consequences of stopping a person from violating regulations and the value of a police officer's enforcement, including their knowledge, experience and interpersonal skills. "
Impact on communities and people
Brian Aken also said that unmanned police cars because of their own characteristics may lead to law enforcement activities outside the police aversion, however, when the police enforcement judgment and sympathy will not be affected or cause outside questions.
In an interview with reporters, he said: 'Big data-driven police intelligence needs us to put resources at the most logical time and place to solve specific and specific problems. At the same time, we also need to consider the community The impact it produces and the mood of the people. '
He also believes that if the level of interaction between ordinary people and the police is reduced, it may cause chaos in the traffic environment and even result in public hostility to law enforcement activities.
It is true that the above argument is not yet mature. In fact, there are no guidelines on the operation of unmanned police vehicles.
Unmanned police cars can take measures to force the target vehicle? However, unmanned police vehicle system more and more bully, who can effectively control them? These issues are the concept of unmanned police car triggered after the change into reality The additional question.
Bryant Walker Smith believes that all future sensors for internal and external sensors in automobiles, drones and other infrastructure, as well as sensors that interconnect these devices with the cloud, will have a mandatory effect on the public and private.
Bryant Walker Smith is questioning Ford's concept of driverless police cars because the implications of that include the implication that any carmaker of the future may launch a similar model that may be shoddy.
Driverless cars are popular
It is worth mentioning that these unmanned police vehicles also lose their due role when other vehicles on the road surface become unmanned vehicles.
When the future of driverless cars is already widespread, one may see a situation where an unmanned police car requires the driver to park an unmanned and passengerless vehicle, and the reason for this is Autopilot system glitch.
However, it can be seen from this point that the advent of the robot police era has become inevitable.
Patent documents
Ford's driverless patent documents show that when unmanned police vehicles receive the mission area, they will choose hidden observation points to access the traffic signal system of nearby routes and detect whether all the vehicles in the target area are over-speeding. Run a red light, violation and other irregularities, but also automatically adjust the observation point according to the situation.
If the suspected illegal vehicles, will be the first case, and then submitted to the location of the incident occurred near the electronic eye or sensor to extract relevant evidence, the violation information uploaded to the shop's transportation system, verify the driver's license, the ticket or warning given. Unmanned police vehicles can track their own illegal vehicles on the road, to determine violations of vehicles in violation of the law and take appropriate penalties, you can also perform the task with the police.
The patent also disclosed that unmanned police vehicles will be able to wirelessly communicate with other vehicles on the road and determine whether these vehicles are in autopilot mode or under the control of the driver. Violation vehicles can also communicate with police vehicles, such as providing a driver's license. Automatic piloted police cars do not necessarily replace human police catch traffickers, some of the 'routine tasks' such as requiring parking on stop signs and automatic piloting of police vehicles can be done automatically, but other tasks that can not be done automatically require driver action. The autonomous driving police vehicle may determine the speed limit for a given road segment by searching for the legal speed limit for the road segment in the local traffic regulation database or by querying the remote central computing system.