These are all fairly trivial problems to solve, if they even end up being such a problem.
The nature of these cars, it seems to me, will mean that this kind of behavior will be impossible. All cars will be watching all other cars, and you.
REMEMBER:*Autonomous cars will need to be able to watch each other.*Autonomous cars will very likely also be networked together.*This network will likely be monitored by police; they will have autonomous cars too after all.
This means that every car is now also a mobile surveillance drone.
CONSEQUENCES:*Even if you're allowed to tell your car to say, go faster than the speed limit (unlikely), every other auto-car will see you do this, and report you.***Custom firmware will be disallowed** (this is a good thing, driving a car is not a right, those roads aren't yours), and no one will care that this firmware is disallowed. There's nothing you'd do with it. The standard firmware will be as convenient as it could be, attempts to game the system will offer so little benefit as to be pointless and any car running unsigned code will be found, tracked, and stopped. How? See the following.***Manual drivers who use the defensive nature of autonomous cars to their advantage will also be identified and reported.** Just imagine you drive like an ass, knowing autocars will get out of your way, imagine some empty ones coming out of the woodwork to box you in. Perhaps other autonomous vehicles, designed for this purpose (I'm thinking bulldozer blades on both sides) will box you in and physically immobilize you, perhaps even lifting your wheels off the ground to take you to the authorities.
Source: Beyond the Trolley Problem: Three realistic, near-future ethical dilemmas about self-driving cars
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