> "How would this affect the usage of self-driving cars? "
It wouldn't. Puzzlingly, this law seeks to ban aerial drone surveillance while explicitly allowing any surveillance, by person or drone, conducted by a device or person supported by the ground.
So an aerial paparazzi drone would be illegal. But a veritable army of paparazzi ground drones, even ringing a property and photographing every inch of the same people and/or structures, would be legal.
Another loophole is that the bill states that any device affixed to the ground is acceptable. A weather balloon and a camera tethered to my car with several hundred meters of rope would presumably be alright.
It wouldn't. Puzzlingly, this law seeks to ban aerial drone surveillance while explicitly allowing any surveillance, by person or drone, conducted by a device or person supported by the ground.
So an aerial paparazzi drone would be illegal. But a veritable army of paparazzi ground drones, even ringing a property and photographing every inch of the same people and/or structures, would be legal.