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Google Self Driving Car Question

wazzuFreddo

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So I was zipping down 101 the other night the Google Self Driving car goes zooming past my truck, that may have already been a little over the limit :shhh, and it made me wonder.

If you pull over the self driving car for speeding, who gets the ticket?
 
I see those google cars regularly on my commute. Not exactly self driving as there is a person in the driver seat. Not doubt the "driver seat passenger" would get the ticket.
 
The google car is a huge jump into uncharted territory. I've seen it a couple times in my area but always going the opposite direction, would love to stop it and talk to the guy running it to ask some questions.


I highly doubt the car would let itself speed on autopilot, must have been in manual mode. There's going to have to be alot of talking and slot of writing to clear up some 'what ifs' before that car is unleashed, which is a long way off anyways
 
Ah so that's what I saw the other day on 24 EB during the evening commute...didn't think their streetview cameras would rotate.
 
The one I saw was a Prius heading up the hill from Orinda.

Wouldn't the definition in CVC 305 cover the person in the Google car? Sort of like getting a DUI while sitting in your parked car if you have the keys on you.
 
Traq said:
The one I saw was a Prius heading up the hill from Orinda.

Wouldn't the definition in CVC 305 cover the person in the Google car? Sort of like getting a DUI while sitting in your parked car if you have the keys on you.
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It could/would, but this opens up a vast amount of situations.

I'm actually surprised google would open themselves up to that much liability. Even in just outright frivolous lawsuits. Say for example traffic comes to a stop real quick and someone rear-ends the google car. This is probably 90% of the crashes that we respond to and is always the fault of the car behind, but people still try to place blame on the cars ahead for stopping because they can't take responsiblity for their own mistakes. Throw google money into the picture and lawsuits will be flowing like crazy, with or without any foundation. Let alone people intentionally trying to make the car react/crash. Or owners/passengers if the car crashes itself.

Its going to be interesting. IMO, the whole point of owning one would be that you could so something else while the car drives you. Like sleeping, reading, working, Barfing, being drunk, whatever. Now if you're supposed to be 'in control' of the computer at a moments notice, that throws all those options out the window. So if you're sleeping in the front seat, and the google car crashes and you weren't paying attention to stop it, is it the cars fault or yours :loco
 
I commute everyday from Cupertino to Santa Clara, and I see 2-3 of those bishes every commute. They don't drive well (slow-fast-slow-fast) and there's always some douchey looking guy in the drivers seat smiling away like he is the coolest guy in the world.

I did brake check the car once - 85 merge to 237 is a mess - but I didn't get hit obviously, or I would be typing this from my gold plated keyboard.
 
Tharkûn said:
I'm actually surprised google would open themselves up to that much liability.
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I'm not sure you're aware how much money Google has :laughing

I suspect it won't be released until laws are on the books about it, which is likely to be a while. However, there are already cars out there that will parallel park themselves. What if they hit something?
 
Tharkûn said:
Say for example traffic comes to a stop real quick and someone rear-ends the google car. This is probably 90% of the crashes that we respond to and is always the fault of the car behind, but people still try to place blame on the cars ahead for stopping because they can't take responsiblity for their own mistakes.
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This has already happened. :laughing The Google car has video running continuously, and was cleared of responsibility for the accident in court.

Nevada and a couple other states are beginning to craft vehicle codes addressing autonomous vehicles. I agree completely that it's an interesting frontier. My grandkids are going to be astonished someday that I had to manually steer my car for hundreds of miles at a time along the interstate.
 
To all the people who are afraid of autonomous cars, I hope you guys never fly ILS/MLS (hint: they're way, way, way safer than any human pilot). The legislation will catch up eventually, then things get worked out in court, and law enforcement procedures will follow after that. Same as it ever was.
 
thenewwazoo said:
To all the people who are afraid of autonomous cars, I hope you guys never fly ILS/MLS (hint: they're way, way, way safer than any human pilot). The legislation will catch up eventually, then things get worked out in court, and law enforcement procedures will follow after that. Same as it ever was.
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I'm not afraid of autonomous cars, I'm afraid of incompetent/distracted drivers. And...the perentage of them, in the traffic grid.
 
Otto Pilot :twofinger
 

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