I can't wait for driverless cars. It will mean the state loosing a massive tool of state oppression / police contact with the people. The state will find a way to replace road piracy but it will be fun to watch it squirm for a while. Imagine, no traffic tickets. No getting pulled over and searched. No DUI's. Even parking tickets could be largely avoided if the car drops you off and then goes away.
The amount of money the state looses will be huge. Then the state will have to scramble to come up with a new way to make the money. 41 million people get speeding in a year at a cost of over $6 billion. There are 196 million drivers, so cops nail just over 1 in 5 each year.
Bench warrants will have to be served by door knocking. I suppose the police will have more time to do that. I wonder if they will institute more checkpoints. I wonder if they will issue DUI arrests at these checkpoints, even though the cars are driving themselves.
Road piracy is also the most dangerous part about being a cop. The number one cause of death for a cop is traffic accidents. If they lose traffic duty, their ranks will fall very far from the top of the most dangerous jobs lists. Actually they wont' even be on most lists. I wonder if the public will notice this.
Will they still be able to dupe the public into thinking they are risking their lives to save us if they aren't even on dangerous jobs lists? Well, feminists have the public thinking they earn 77 cents on the dollar for the same work a man does, even though that's not even their official statistics and even though young women out earn young men.