If the penalty for criminal conduct is a fine, and the fine isn't sufficiently punitive to radically alter the company's conduct, then crime is just a cost of doing business.
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If breaking a law is only punishable by a fine, then it’s only a law for poor people.
I'm pretty sure someone asked that question when they tried to prevent robotaxis on the streets, but someone else got paid to skip the bureaucracy. Now they will collect extra money from the companies for not being road ready.
If they are treating tech flaws as a crime, all the violations come from the exact same driver. Take the license away.
Please just boot them, for everyone’s safety.
You're wrong. Driverless vehicles are safer, according to all data I've seen.
Here's one such example:
Of 2,052 AV incidents reported to the NHTSA, autonomous vehicles were solely at fault for only 4% of accidents that involved other road users.
The vast majority of AV-caused injuries involve animals; only 14 human injuries have resulted from the 234 incidents where an AV was at fault. There have been zero human fatalities caused by an AV from 2021-2025.
System malfunctions aren’t common; hardware or software failures accounted for 7.8% of incidents where the autonomous vehicle was found to be at fault.
I'm happy to stand corrected if there's data that points otherwise, but I'd rather stick to facts.
Ticket goes to the individual car. If the car does not pay by X period of time, it goes to jail. Pretty soon there will be prison gangs of autonomous cars.
and then the AI that runs the cars will contract you out to go collect the rogue ones because it thinks you're all buddy buddy with it cause It dropped off the corpse of your best friend at their moms house.