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Driverless Tesla Model 3 Pulled over by Police for Failure to Stop

• ablation 7y ago
  That looks like an extremely well-photographed/videoed event. One might even imagine it was staged.
• neuralzen 7y ago
  It doesn't look like the cop should have been able to pull the car over anyway, that looks like private property, not a public street or intersection, and that stop sign is not put up by the city but by the owners of the property (note it has no official sticker on the back of the stop sign). An interesting and inevitable discussion, but in this case it looks like a ticket that would get thrown out regardless.
  • dragonwriter 7y ago
    > It doesn't look like the cop should have been able to pull the car over anyway, that looks like private property, not a public street or intersection In CA, local governments can be ordinance permit enforcement of the State Vehicle Code on designated private property; parking lots open to the public are frequent subjects of this. I'd expect that CA is by no means unique in that respect.
  • masonic 7y ago
    Traffic stops can be legitimately triggered by lots of reasons beyond vehicle code moving violations, e.g. impaired driver approaching a public road, stolen vehicle report, endangering pedestrians or other vehicles, etc.
• Traster 7y ago
  Obviously this is a ridiculously staged event, and I'm not sure why they felt the need to pretend it was real, but obviously it is a real issue that Tesla has released a feature for their car which obviously violates traffic regulations and exhibits behaviour that would get a regular driver a fine. As far as I understand it in that situation the person summoning the car is in control of the vehicle which is why you must be within eye sight, so the person driving the car is the person who should get the ticket, and then presumably they'd have a fair argument for suing tesla for the cost of the ticket.