Here’s what happens when police pull over a driverless car

As self-driving cars become increasingly common on American streets, an obvious question arises: What happens when police want to pull over a robot-driven vehicle that has no human backup driver? In their recently updated “Emergency Response Guide,” Alphabet’s Waymo — which has hundreds of autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans on the road in Phoenix — provides a protocol that may offer some glimpse of what is to come.

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