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Police preparing for autonomous cars on roads

Smart City Chirine Etezadzadeh

How will the traffic police adopt to the increasing number of autnomous vehicles? Image source: Shutterstock (#46269745).

In a partnership with Alphabet’s Waymo, the police in Chandler, Arizona, is training its cars to recognize and respond to emergency vehicles. Waymo is also creating a “library of sights and sounds” for autonomous vehicles to learn from.

As more self-driving cars hit the roads, more and more policemen and first responders are getting training on how to assess those cars after accidents, and how to handle them in collisions and during traffic stops. Future regulations and future traffic laws will most definitely change, and the executive is starting to get a say in it.

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