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Pretty sure if you get pulled over driving home on autopilot drunk, you're still getting a DUI. It's amazing to me what people will do to save a few bucks on t
by onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
Pretty sure if you get pulled over driving home on autopilot drunk, you're still getting a DUI.
It's amazing to me what people will do to save a few bucks on taxi fare.
- obblekk 4y agoDefinitely. But people believe they won't get pulled over because the car will drive itself fine.
- zamnos 4y agoIf autopilot means the car isn't swerving around like a drunken idiot is driving, where's the probable cause to pull people over?
- scarface74 4y agoSince when have cops needed probable cause?
- lm28469 4y agoDUI checkpoints The autopilot doing its habitual random shenanigans that makes it look exactly like a drunk driver is at the wheel You being asleep at the wheel &c.
- rootusrootus 4y ago> DUI checkpoints One of the nice things about living in the PNW is that both Oregon and Washington prohibit such unconstitutional crap.
- lm28469 4y agoI'm real glad they have DUI checks outside of night clubs during the weekend here, they bust hundreds of drunk drivers before they get on the roads. Alcohol is responsible for 30% of road deaths here, 23% due to other drugs. That's a lot of death you can avoid with a 30 seconds spit test
- op00to 4y agoDUI checkpoints are set up to only catch the stupidest of criminals. At least in my neck of the woods, they publish the locations of the checkpoints in advance, and are always on arterial roads, but never state highways or interstates. It's entirely possible to avoid the checkpoints altogether. If you're stupid enough to get wrapped up in one of those, you probably shouldn't be drinking or driving.
- rootusrootus 4y agoI once got pulled over because I was using autopilot. And I was stone cold sober. Damn thing just couldn't figure out how to do easy corners on I-5 without ping-ponging. Turns out there was a cop behind me. Fortunately it was resolved quickly with chuckles all around.
- sokoloff 4y agoThey're probably pretty close to right. When I think back to impaired drivers I've noticed on the road, the first two things I've noticed were inadequate lane-keeping and wild/baseless speed changes. Autopilot is good enough to mask those two signals. (I'm not saying this is a good idea; I'm just saying they're probably correct in that it reduces their chance to be pulled over.)
- truculent 4y agoI think there are worse outcomes here than getting a fine
- sho_hn 4y agoIn urban environments in high-density countries like South Korea it's fairly pervasive that you can use a phone app to call a driver. They will drive your car home for you.
- guenthert 4y ago> In urban environments in high-density countries That would be urban environments in high-density countries with low wages. That driver needs to get to the car and home and someone needs to pay for that.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoMass Transit is an affordable option in places outside the US...
- freedomben 4y agoI don't in any way support drunk driving, but I do think it's unfair to frame it as "a few bucks." That would only be true if you were within walking distance and sharing a cab with others. For most of the situations I've been in, it's more like $60 plus a big gamble that there will be any rides available. In many areas Uber/Lyft are the only options and during low hours (particularly early morning 12 to 2) there aren't any drivers.
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- AlexandrB 4y agoIn the context of buying a $50,000 car + whatever FSD/autopilot costs instead, it's fair to call $60 "a few bucks".
- freedomben 4y agoI would agree if the buying the car was only for driving home from the bar. That seems unlikely. I would guess that in nearly all cases, the person already owned the car before they even decided to go to the bar that night.