Setting the car aspect aside, there really should be some element of discretion in the criminal justice system.

Mandatory minimums and AI-assisted parole hearings produce outcomes that people know are unfair when they see the end result. But it’s difficult to convince people to avoid adopting them at the start, because we have this bias towards thinking that “quantitative and rule-based” automatically means fair, without thinking of the fact that someone needs to design the metrics and the measurement systems.

The biases of the police force and judges aren’t fair either, but I don’t think the answer is to put those decisions entirely in the hands of data analysts and policy wonks who are even further removed from the communities they impact.

Adding the car aspect back in, I think the biggest concern I have is the surveillance capability these enable.