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).

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.

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.

No, they'll just use it to murder people

Unless they find a way to save some dollars with this loophole.

We are thinking of the children, thats why we need to scan your face and see your drivers license if you want to see boobs.

They shouldn't be playing in traffic anyway. Not when theres boobs on the internet.

Sorry, best I can do is shoehorn age verification into phones, websites, and OSes.

Hahahahaha no. damage the robotaxis? straight to jail.

Yea I get real tired of hearing the term car accident. Sure accidents can happen, but 99.99% of the time one or both parties in a collision weren't paying attention and crashes occurred because a shit driver made the wrong move. People get complacent because they can play bumper cars and have little consequence, I think people should be ticketed in accidents more often. For example the 16 screws in my left arm are because a company truck driver "accidentally" took a left over double yellows without waiting for traffic to clear. CLEAR traffic violation, but nah let's just chalk that up to a standard whoopsie daisy. Now home dudes gonna do the same thing in 3 months next time he gets impatient trying to make a turn.

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.