piefed.zeromedia.vipCalifornia police can start ticketing driverless cars this July
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They couldn’t before?
You also need to have a Finnish style progressive fines relative to income, which would also extend to companies.
Technically? No. The problem is that the existing laws legally speaking all apply to the driver, and tickets likewise are all issued to the driver, which doesn’t actually exist in this case. Cops were writing tickets and the company was paying them, but legally speaking it was a grey area and waymo could have disputed the tickets and there’s a decent chance they would have won. This legislation removes the ambiguity.
Ah, corporations are people when donating for political causes and when ecxercising free speech, but not when driving a vehicle?
To put it more generally, corporations are people when it’s good to be a person, but not when it’s bad to be a person
One of my cars got a jaywalking ticket once. Robots in Disguise!
If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won’t, because the police serve the wealthy, but it’s a nice day fantasy.
We have this in Finland, some rich people have been fined over 200k for speeding. No particular targeting of rich people noted.
In the US, a portion of that fine goes back to the police departments. Giving them a financial incentive to give tickets.
If the fines went to anything except the people giving the fines, then it could work here. But we were so stupid to couple the two in the first place.
The fines should go towards paying for road repair and upkeep as well as public transit. Better and well maintained roads will cut down on accidents and better public transit would cut down on the number of cars in the road which is a win for everyone.
If they would ticket the cars for driving without a licensed driver, I’d be OK with it.
Does Elon pay the tickets?