Great, now even one fewer incentive for companies to right their wrongs.
As it they were ever botbered by this operational cost.
This is some bullshit will someone please think of the children
The company must report the incident to the DMV within 72 hours, or 24 hours if the officer has designated the incident a priority because of “a clear or potential danger or risk of injury to others,” the regulations said.
Nothing says imminent danger like a 24-72 hour grace period to do something about it.
Yeah we know our car blasted around a school bus and killed three children, but you have to understand there is certain paperwork we need to file first.
Alternate headline: Money talks, allows immunity to traffic laws.
If this were true they wouldn’t have enacted any legislation at all (which was the status quo before this). The next step should be to use the data gained from ticketing these robot taxis to determine the rate of infraction and hold the the company accountable when that legislation is ready. I. E. Corp has broken the law X number of times and each infraction equals a penalty, x number of penalties means revoking of license to operate robot taxi service in state etc.
We all know that fining corps isn’t something that actually works because they just consider it part of their operating cost, so the goal should be to prevent them from operating altogether if their product can’t adhere to traffic laws.
Also, I think perhaps it might be worth it to license these vehicles differently. A commercial license of some kind because individuals can’t be held accountable (because either the people operating them or observing them aren’t in the same country, or because there isn’t a vehicle operator at all).
because individuals can’t be held accountable
That’s just laziness. There are individuals who can be held accountable.
Starting with the executives who signed off on these things being put on the road in the first place.
They’re currently breaking the law and not being held accountable. The threat of eventually being held accountable is a step in the right direction, but the only reason they’re able to do this right now is due to money.
The fact that they weren’t being ticketed before means that we don’t even really know how bad these cars are, and yet they’ve been allowed to stay on roads with pedestrians and other cars.
Not exactly. They were braking the law and not being held accountable. Now they’re being held accountable but how they are being held to account is problematic and toothless. That’s not the same thing and it’s exactly what my comment was trying to highlight. There are ways that the law can progress to be more effective.
Needing to report incidents isn’t being held accountable. They’re not facing any consequences for breaking the law.
The problem comes to who’s at fault?
Is it the passenger riding? The car itself? The company that programmed it? The owner?
Personally, I agree, robotaxis should be yeeted out of existence if they can’t abide traffic laws- but a lot of them are being operated privately too.
They should’ve not been permitted at all until these questions were answered, and corporations should not have been allowed to comment.
I mean, it’s obviously the company. The issue is the government doesn’t want to actually legislate and determine how you address issues where there is prison time and or licenses get revoked.
Its also not a problem, it’s an abdication of responsibility. Either the government needs to take a stance or the cars shouldn’t be on the road. Seems like instead the government is willing to risk our safety rather than take any firm stance.
Companies should get fined a minimum of 1% of gross profits per infraction
I don’t disagree. As the operator of the vehicle you as a regular person would be at held at fault. A commercially licensed driver would be held at fault and in some cases the company is held at fault depending on the infraction and their policy.
When a machine doesn’t operate within the confines of the law, the fact is the company who owns and operates the machine is liable. So that’s who should be held at fault.
Some kid is gonna get killed and everyone will wonder how it happened
TBF kids are already getting killed by other cars and society deems it an acceptable loss for being able to take cars everywhere.
In 2023, there’s been 12 fatalities of kids under 4 years old in Canada, and 48 fatalities between 5 and 14 years old. All ages, it’s a total of nearly 2000 dead in a year in Canada alone for 2023.
When a kid dies in a pool we nearly ban them and strengthen regulations. Cities pay inspectors to make sure people have fences around their pool.
When a kid gets clipped by a fast moving cyclist it makes the news. Dangerous cyclists are roaming the streets at high speed, nearly killing children! What an outrage!
But when cars kill a few thousand people every year, one every 30 seconds on the planet, it’s the price we have to pay for this convenience. We can’t stop the world turning. Our economies would collapse without cars so we can’t really impose any regulations on them. They’re EsSeNtIAl.
fuck cars.
Come again?
So Robot Wars - Mad Max sponsored by GTA?
Sales of white Jaguar I-Paces have surged
This is DEI for robots. If you have to lower the standards to qualify; you don’t.
Well, DEI is the only way minorities (including those more competent than aryan competitors) even get any jobs. Yes, it is that terrible.
It fucking works. They just hire the minimum amount of us, but at least those have a job.
