Answer:
yes they should be legal
Explanation:
Self-driving vehicles and other networked autonomous robots
use sophisticated sensors to capture continuous data about
the surrounding environment. In the public spaces where
autonomous vehicles operate there is little reasonable expectation of privacy and no notice or choice given, raising privacy questions. To improve the acceptance of networked autonomous vehicles and to facilitate the development of technological and policy mechanisms to protect privacy, public
expectations and concerns must first be investigated. In a
study (n=302) of residents in cities with and without Uber
autonomous vehicle fleets, we explore people’s conceptions
of the sensing and analysis capabilities of self-driving vehicles; their comfort with the di↵erent capabilities; and the
e↵ort, if any, to which they would be willing to go to opt out
of data collection. We find that 54% of participants would
spend more than five minutes using an online system to opt
out of identifiable data collection. In addition, secondary use
scenarios such as recognition, identification, and tracking of
individuals and their vehicles were associated with low likelihood ratings and high discomfort. Surprisingly, those who
thought secondary use scenarios were more likely were more
comfortable with those scenarios. We discuss the implications of our results for understanding the unique challenges
of this new technology and recommend industry guidelines
