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California police can start ticketing driverless cars this July (thehill.com)
submitted 3 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

If they would ticket the cars for driving without a licensed driver, I'd be OK with it.

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

They couldn't before?

You also need to have a Finnish style progressive fines relative to income, which would also extend to companies.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

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.