This seems like quite a legal loophole 😂
Clanker supremacy at its finest!
According to the Atlanta Police Standard Operating Procedure, they are told not to issue citations to driverless vehicles.
The standards read in part:
'The court system is currently unable to process traffic citations for AVs with no human operator. If the vehicle violates a traffic law, where a citation would be warranted, the officer must write a report providing the details surrounding the incident and the law that was violated.'
'So it looks like there are two sets of rules out there -- one for people and the other for robots,' Chris Timmons, a partner with the law firm Knowels Gallant and Timmons, said.
Someone needs to be held accountable for the robots!
Because of this technicality, couldn't someone in a Tesla just claim they had self-driving enabled to get out of a ticket?
"I'm sorry, officer, but the car ran that stop sign, not me!"
If the Atlanta PD doesn't have the time to apply for a warrant to check the car's log and camera footage, who knows what excuses could be made!
'It's just a matter of figuring out, you know, it's an extra step of figuring out who at the company needs to be ultimately responding to these actions,' Timmons said.
Imagine being the guy who gets all the traffic tickets pinned on him 😂
Now, these incidents with Waymo are rare. According to Atlanta police, there have been fewer than a dozen cases so far.
However, until the law catches up, driverless cars will have a leg up on the rules of the road.
'I can't believe we've reached the stage where our judicial system treats machines better than us,' [Emory Professor Ramnath] Chellappa said.
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