Autonomous Vehicles Will Mean the End of Traffic Stops
So “Riding While Black” becomes the new DWB. Or will it? No more broken brake lights, alleged unsafe lane changes etc. What will they do to make up the revenue from real and imagined violations?
Losing the pretext stop—where officers stop a motorist for a minor violation in order to investigate a potentially more serious crime—is no small thing. Schafer estimates such stops, along with traffic accidents, account for roughly half of all encounters with the public. Bernard Levin, a retired professor of psychology at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, Virginia., and a co-author of The Future of Policing, calls it the “major means of catching people when we don’t know who we’re going for.”
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