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Serious question: Do the police know how to ticket a robotaxi?
by ErikVandeWater 4y ago
Serious question: Do the police know how to ticket a robotaxi?
- CoastalCoder 4y agoRelated: can a tow truck operator safely impound one?
- kfarr 4y agoAFAIK: no. Most PD are very against use of photo-based retroactive citations, and that's what this would require. Of course in theory they have the authority to do so, it just never seems to happen.
- jfim 4y agoAt this point in time, I believe they cannot issue a moving violation to an autonomous car as it does not have a driver. The safety driver (if there is one), can be cited though. See the autonomous vehicle guidelines used by the SFPD: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21970950/av-interaction-guidelines-sfpd.pdf https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21970950/av-interacti...
- apstats 4y agoI assume that traffic violations like this are handled differently than those with a human driver given the permitting and reporting required for the self driving companies operating in SF. That said it’s SF so who knows…