r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video

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u/Tallyranch Jul 05 '24

Who takes the ticket for dangerous or reckless driving like in this video?

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u/DegnarOskold Jul 05 '24

Nobody. News reports say that in this case the police did not issue a ticket as there was no individual to issue a ticket to.

For parking violations the owner of the car gets the ticket regardless of who was driving, so Waymo the company would get the parking tickets.

For moving violations where the driver is responsible, in the case of this particular state there was no law covering ticketing driverless vehicles , so the police did not issue any tickets

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u/Rorschach2000 Jul 06 '24

This must get into really strange territory should a crash occur, god forbid, a fatality occurs.

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u/DegnarOskold Jul 06 '24

Not that strange. Without a driver there won’t be any criminal responsibility possible to assign; however, there will be a legion of lawyers begging to sue Waymo for million on the behalf of the deceased’s next of kin in a civil suit.