In the future police will be able to drive Tesla vehicles into custody through remote access

A Dutch police force has performed several experiments to see what will be possible once self-driving and connected cars become more common.

The police force tested several vehicles from various manufacturers ranging from Tesla, to vehicles from other companies like Toyota, Audi and Marcedes.

Although self-driving still isn’t an option yet, the police are getting ready to see how the upcoming technology could help them retrieve stolen vehicles.

Most cars already have remote kill blocks to stop stolen vehicles, but with modern advances, law enforcement is closer than ever to being able to remotely take over a car and drive it to a safe space.

Chief innovation officer with the Dutch police force Hans Schönfeld, predicts that it will take around ten years for self-driving cars to become the norm in the Netherlands, but he thinks connected cars will arrive much sooner, reports The Next Web.

Further, Schönfeld mentions that being able to look at the car’s chip and determine how fast a driver was travelling before a crash, can make it much easier to differentiate between a manslaughter case and an accident, according to the report.

Overall, this is good news for anyone that stresses about their brand new Tesla getting stolen.

Source: The Next Web

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