[lyime]

Absolutely not. While that might sound like a safety feature it can also be extremely unsafe.

Imagine letting a passenger in a car use the e-brake at any time.

It's a tricky problem.

[troad]

> Imagine letting a passenger in a car use the e-brake at any time.

Alright, I'm imagining. Seems extremely sensible, especially in an AI-operated vehicle.

Much of the world (the US being an outlier) puts passenger-facing emergency breaks in every carriage of passenger trains.

[jeffrallen]

Buses and trains already have publicly usable e-stops. Hell, English ones even have them on the OUTSIDE of the bus.

Clearly autonomous vehicles need e-stops, like all automated machines.