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California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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That's not how it fucking works
How have you guys not bothered to prepare for this? It's not the cop's fault, but it is not a secret that there are Waymo cars in San Francisco. How is this something that nobody thought of?
Oh, pardon me. So you're on top of it.
And your plan was to call up Waymo and ask them politely to improve their tech please? Or, that becomes the plan as of 2026?
My guy these cars went on the road EIGHT FUCKING YEARS AGO
The big invasion of Ukraine was years in the future, Covid hadn't happened and wasn't going to any time soon, Obama had just stepped down, CALIFORNIA EXPLAIN
Dude, you can't just penalize a corporation. That would be commiesocialism or something.
According to the government, "Corporations are people too."
I'll believe a corporation is a person when The Texas department of corrections executes one.
I'll believe a corporation is a person when one is successfully murdered. I don't care who does it.
And just like real people. They’re dead when they have no more money.
And yet, they can sell their debt
That’s only because the liberals government took away Americans’ right to buy and sell people. Gotta bundle debt and people together for good business.
Back then, both in the US and the UK, the liberal philosophers of the times considered it an infringement on property rights to restrict the buying and selling of slaves. Liberalism: A Counter-History goes over the debates at the time.
Republicans love to point to those days to claim they're not racist today
You wouldn't molotovcocktail a car (just because it's putting everyone's safety at risk simply by existing)
Surely there is a leftist or unhoused person that could be scapegoated and punished for this.
I believe the federal gubment just declared being anti capitalism is considered an act of terror or something.
If FDR was still alive, they'd execute him for "terrorism"
But exactly! You guys wanted hypercapitalism, now you complain?
You finally found out how long it takes to get laws into effect bro.
Obama was elected in 2008 and took office in 2009. The biggest overhaul to American health care since FDR went into effect on March 23, 2010, and that was with the US congress involved, which always inevitably turns everything into more of a shit show than it needs to be.
You can do it, you just have to be something other than dysfunctional wreckage to do it.
Did nobody think to just write "waymo" and use the company HQ as the driver's address?
Better yet, ask the waymo car for a drivers license. None present? Impound.
Just tell the cops they're allowed to stab the tires and have it towed. The problem will fix itself one way or another.
You've got the right spirit but I think it's unlikely that the car would realize its tires have been destroyed, I think it would just keep driving around just with less control over its actions which might not be the best.
Give them a little hand-carried version of The Grappler, and then if Waymo has some kind of concern about what has happened to the brakes and suspension and all sorts of shit that is broken now, just give 'em one of these.
I'm not going to stop you, but the car definitely knows the tyre status. Most modern cars have tyre pressure sensing.
Naw. Cone ‘em and then tow them- at owner’s expense.
The state’s allowed to ban the company from the roads if they bother too many people or officials—a fairly enormous stick.
Make the whole world’s governments mad? Investors won’t be too happy. Huggge stick.
It does break from our “one immediate fine/ticket for one infraction” paradigm so I understand why it looks bad.
Gosh can you imagine if they drop our numbers from ~seven Californians killed on our roads every day to [far] fewer… (guy can dream, obvy they’re not perfect)
If the waymo hadnt been painted white they would have unloaded a clip into it instead
The government is great