Look, they told us from the start that there would always be a “responsible operator” with a license and insurance and this individual person would be liable for tickets and implicated in accidents, whatever happened on the road.
Waymo has been deployed for a long time. It’s absurd that law enforcement has no idea how, or whom, to ticket!!
In most jurisdictions, if a speed camera catches a car breaking the speed limit, doesn’t the ticket go to the registered owner of the car, and it's their responsibility to claim someone else was driving or pay the ticket?
If it is a problem to give a ticket for such minor infraction, how is police going to find a person who is responsible for accident or death? Police will just shrug? Until it is exactly specified who is responsible for what in written law, these cars should not be on public roads.
>During a DUI enforcement operation, officers in San Bruno pulled over a car without anyone behind the wheel after the autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn at a light.
I'd bet a lot of money that the intersection isn't signed or is poorly signed (because if there's one thing these vehicles do pretty well it's obey obvious signage) or not signed and the illegality of the U turn is implicit, the software learned that the path was valid from other drivers because it's a easy/tasteful place to do a U turn and the cops just spawn camp it (because they need a legal pretext for the stop, so something like that works well) when they want to go fishing.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 20.7 ms ] threadWaymo has been deployed for a long time. It’s absurd that law enforcement has no idea how, or whom, to ticket!!
Company breaks law: you cheeky little scamp, just don't let me catch you again, eh?
Normal person breaks law: Halt! Prepare for adminstration of the long dick of the law!
Seriously, how many points do they get to rack up before a ban? I get 12. And is it per car, per version or what?
I'd bet a lot of money that the intersection isn't signed or is poorly signed (because if there's one thing these vehicles do pretty well it's obey obvious signage) or not signed and the illegality of the U turn is implicit, the software learned that the path was valid from other drivers because it's a easy/tasteful place to do a U turn and the cops just spawn camp it (because they need a legal pretext for the stop, so something like that works well) when they want to go fishing.