California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go

Under the new rules, police will be able to issue tickets directly to the car's manufacturer when an autonomous vehicle breaks a traffic law.

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queermunist@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 107d (1 reply)

They weren't before??

dhork@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d

They probably weren't able to issue a ticket to anyone other than the car's driver before now

SlippiHUD@piefed.social · 2 pts · 107d

This is one of those vanishingly rare scenarios where Civil Forfieture actually makes sense.

You literally programmed your property to commit a crime that endangers the general public.