I hate the fuckin’ things because they are flooding the street with unavoidable surveillance cameras wherever the cars go, grabbing our faces and probably logging our identity and location. At the same time, we probably need them to have surveillance so that when they run over a kid that the car thinks is a tumbleweed, there is evidence to analyse.
there is evidence to analyse
hopefully the new laws dictate that the data is stored in Belgium or EU and the state systems get direct access. Not sure if our leaders are so tech-savvy.
Furthermore I believe the law should dictate that any systems used in self-driving vehicles are 100% open source so they can be inspected by security experts. That should be a hard requirement.
Even then, I reckon self-driving should be reserved for mass transport, not single vehicles as I believe those should be discouraged as much as possible. Granted, that is hard with the Belgian rural sprawl, a massive failure of public planning which is now costing us so much.
