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The Nevada Independent

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Some robotaxis approved to run without steering wheels. Brake pedals could be next.

Most vehicle safety regulations were written decades ago, always with the assumption that there would be a human driver behind the wheel. They're trying to catch up with autonomous vehicles, which don't need all the traditional car's features.

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Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers patrol the Las Vegas Strip.

Vegas police are big users of license plate readers. Public has little input because it's a gift.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. Unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their police work, Metro funds the project with donor money funneled into a private foundation.