The car did not get a ticket.
“UNABLE TO ISSUE CITATION TO COMPUTER,” say dispatch records, AZCentral writes. Arizona law does allow officers to give out tickets when a robotaxi commits a traffic violation while driving autonomously; however, officers have to give them to the company that owns the vehicle. Doing so is “not feasible,” according to a Phoenix police spokesperson quoted by trade publication Repairer Driven News earlier this year.
however, officers have to give them to the company that owns the vehicle. Doing so is “not feasible,” according to a Phoenix police spokesperson
That’s gotta be the biggest crock of shit I’ve ever heard, you write the ticket up, and you mail it to the company.
Yeah that’s some bullshit. I got tagged by a speed camera in the Netherlands, two months later I got the citation in California. They sent it to the registered owner, sixt, they forwarded it to me.
Which company is that? The car is probably owned by an LLC based out of a different state, so you have to track down the formation documents there to find the owning company, only to find it’s membership is another LLC in a different state, and so on for 90 levels of bullshit.
I do code enforcement on commercial properties and it can take 50 hours and thousands of dollars in research to figure out who the responsible party is.
Code enforcement for commercial properties is one thing, a simple traffic citation is another.
The responsible party is usually whoever is driving. In the case of self-driving taxi services, like Waymo, the ticket should go to the company the vehicle is registered under.
Which is super easy to pull up, so easy in fact that other automated enforcement mechanisms, like tolls or red light cameras do this with rental companies all the time. Rent a car and go through some tolls or trigger a red light camera and you’ll get a bill “forwarded” to you in a month or 2.
Well at least no one died this time
Per mile driven, all of these autonomous systems are statistically better than humans at driving.
It’s mostly because humans are dogshit at driving, but you are a lot safer using these systems than not, despite media reporting.
That’s only because they don’t drive that fast, and they just dump most problems to a human driver. If a self-driving car stopped in the middle of an intersection and a human driver hit it, the blame would legally fall on the human despite the fact that the self-driving car caused the issue.
Liability of an accident doesn’t factor into those statistics. They include all accidents regardless of blame.
And you act like that exact scenario hasn’t happened with human drivers. In Arizona alone, 3.5 people die every day in traffic incidents. Given the number of dumb fuck road ragers brake checking other drivers on the road, stopping in the middle of an intersection and getting hit probably happens at least once a day, probably more.
Yet even with all those fatalities, and other accidents in general, the autonomous systems still have fewer incidents per mile driven.
3.5 died on Arizona roads yesterday and 3.5 more will die today - think the robots will be safer than us someday?
Wait… Did the car actually stop for the police officer? Or did they have to basically block the car to get it to stop?
That’s Waymo excitement than they are used to over there in Phoenix.