California Mulls Regulations for Driverless Cars

Who would get the ticket?

Google's self-driving car had already logged hundreds of thousands of miles on Bay Area roads before Gov. Jerry Brown took a ceremonious spin in an autonomous Prius last year and signed a law allowing the vehicles to operate in California.

Now bureaucrats in state government are playing catch-up, writing a whole new set of rules of the road.

Should a blind man be allowed to operate a self-driving car? Will an 8-year-old be permitted to "drive" herself to school? Should the vehicles roll through all kinds of weather? Who will be at fault when a robotic car crashes?

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[Free Society]

who will build the roads!?!?!?

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BTW, Sacramento Bee, the word you were looking for was ceremonial, not ceremonious. Nice fucking editors you've got there.

[An0nB0t]

The copy editors lost this war a decade ago. We exist only to impress one another and the one percent of literate beings who take pleasure from going through the local newspaper and marking errors with a red pen.

Now that paper is dying and denying us the red-pen pleasure, all we can do is laugh smugly when "writers" confuse ceremonial with ceremonious and substitute baited for bated.

[An0nB0t]

But what if a blind person or eight-year-old girl is taking an assault weapon to the local police station or is on the way to deliver plastic grocery bags to a recycling center? Surely Cali's legislators can make a few exceptions to the rules...