Originally Posted by woj

what's silly about avoiding high risk cars? you are driving on the highway and have 3 lanes to choose from... without any information, you would just pick a random lane... by knowing where "high risk" drivers are, you would position yourself in a lane furthest away from them... or you see "high risk" driver ahead of you, you then put 70ft of space between that car and you, instead of the default 50ft... etc...

as far as matching drivers, most obvious way is assuming car = driver... most(?) people have their own car, so it's reasonable assumption that would work 90% of the cases... it works quite well on the internet, companies do a pretty reasonable job of profiling you with very limited info, browser, ip, etc... so no reason why it wouldn't work in real world... wouldn't be perfect, but close enough...

also government wouldn't even need to provide any information... self driven cars could see themselves what cars with what license plates get pulled over or what cars are involved in an accident, etc...

there are ton of problems with all this, but it's far from a pipe dream, I wouldn't be shocked at all if it all plays out like this within our lifetimes...