Years ago I was trying to get through a huge crowd leaving a concert once, because I worked nights in a building on the same block, and while I was edging around the corner, a cop on foot thought I was being too aggressive and started banging on my window hard. I rolled it down and explained to him where I was going and why, but later my power window mechanism failed and it might have been related. I wonder how that should be handled with a hypothetical self-driving car?
The AI takes instructions (orders? requests?) from the user. So if the cop asks the user to go back, the user should tell the car to go back, try a different route, etc.
What happens if the user is drunk? Well, naturally, the cop tells the car that it's a cop and just pick a different route.
And we shall see how well it will work.
Probably it'll take a (few?) decade(s) before a self-driving car should think it can safely wade through a crowd instead of going back and finding a good place to wait for user input :)
