How will bank robbers make their getaways when all we have are self-driving cars?

Maybe they’ll concentrate on city bank branches where they can escape into traffic, surrounded by hundreds of identical self-driving cabs.

That’s a long way in the future, if it even ever happens (and I hope it never does) so no one knows.

Are you suggesting that a self-driving car will also have some sort of technology that will somehow know its passengers are bank robbers and so it should not drive them away, or something?

Even if there were, are we also going to lose the right to program or hack computers or electronic devices, in order to coddle the fears of control-mongering cowards who want some sort of righteous computerized dystopia that tries to watch, record, analyze and control everything anyone does? I sure hope not. At any rate, it’s unlikely to be possible to control everything that way, and trying to create something like that environment seems liable to drive people to madness and violence out of the soul-smothering oppressiveness of it.

In any case, the answer could be that they hack, bypass, reprogram, etc the electronic/computerized controls so that they bypass the limits and/or repurpose or replace the programming to do what they want. The more computers and networks get hooked up to all sorts of devices, the more pandemonium will be possible without even needing to be anywhere near the devices you want to go berserk. Hackers anywhere in the world may be able to reprogram cars and drones and airplanes and ships and powerplants to do crazy homicidal acts. Not to mention all the bugs, malfunctions, and situations no one anticipated but that become statistically inevitable to occur the more devices we wire up and automate, and the longer they are deployed.

And with all the other new types of technology developed, no doubt there will be plenty of other ways to abuse those. Cars are over 100 years old now. Just imagine how much mayhem the hovering drones and hoverboards will be able to do.

Assuming technology even manages to progress that much further… there are much greater challenges to worry about than bank robbers out there. Global climate change, fresh water issues, corporate domination of our politics, laws, media and wealth, etc…

They’ll ride bicycles. A lot faster and more elusive than a car in a city.

They’ll simply modify their vehicle to allow manual driving.

By then most robbers will stealing from banks electronically from the comfort of their own homes.

Become bankers.

They’ll drive away from the bank, being followed by the police, in their self driving car themselves, on which they have a 60 seconds headstart.
A boring, hours long chase will be televised (we see the robbers’ cars signaling to go to the left lane, and we see the car changing lane indeed; police car doing the same), until the robbers’ car runs out of juice.
They get out, jump the fence, and run away, $ 100 notes flying all around.
The cops, one minute later, arrive at the scene.
A shooting unveils, all robbers, and one officer die.
The end.

How can we possibly have bank robbers when guns are outlawed?

See, now you’re just being silly.

The obvious answer is to have the car itself “stickup” the bank.

Online bank theft don’t need no getaway car…hear me now blood

On horseback. Think about it: with smart, electric cars, who would be able to get the cars to go after the robbers??

They will begin stealing self drive cars.

Or just use the future version of something like this jetpack system maybe modified with a flamethrower mode.