[Will88]

True driverless cars and especially large trucks will have to have centralized control and tracking systems. Which means they’ll be vulnerable to hacking and the fun will begin. The hackers and thieves and hijackers will be hard at work developing ways to defeat the systems and usher in a new form of auto thievery and general theft.

The general idea might prove viable, but there will be many problems to be overcome.

[marktwain]

True driverless cars and especially large trucks will have to have centralized control and tracking systems. Which means they’ll be vulnerable to hacking and the fun will begin. The hackers and thieves and hijackers will be hard at work developing ways to defeat the systems and usher in a new form of auto thievery and general theft.

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Nope on the requirement to have centralized control. The initial work on autonomous vehicles was sanctioned by DARPA, and one of the requirements was that they could operate without centralized control.

As for new crimes, absolutely. Every new technology has brought about new crimes and new crime control strategies.