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California cops confused after trying to give ticket to self-driving car

Don't tell Elon, he'd have Tesla's Robotaxis going ludicrous speed

Police in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.

The incident happened in San Bruno, where cops set up a checkpoint to catch intoxicated drivers. As cars lined up, one vehicle, a self-driving Waymo, pulled an illegal U-turn and began to drive away.

The cops fired up their lights and the Waymo pulled over automatically as the robo-cab operator trains its cars to do. But the police officers who pursued the robo-taxi couldn't hand out a ticket, since the driverless taxi had nobody inside.

"Since there was no human driver, a ticket couldn’t be issued (our citation books don’t have a box for 'robot')," said the San Bruno Police Department on its Facebook page. "Hopefully the reprogramming will keep it from making any more illegal moves. It was a first for both officers."

That's due to change. Last year, the California state assembly voted through Assembly Bill No. 1777 which makes the operators of autonomous vehicles subject to moving violations starting from July 1, 2026.

California cops confused after trying to ticket Waymo • The Register
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