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When a Driverless Car Makes an Illegal U-Turn, Who Gets the Ticket?

When a Driverless Car Makes an Illegal U-Turn, Who Gets the Ticket?
business10/1/2025

California approved a law last year allowing the police to cite autonomous vehicles, but it did not specify any penalties, and the law doesn’t take effect until 2026.

Two officers in San Bruno, Calif., a suburb of San Francisco, were checking for drunken drivers over the weekend when they saw a car make an illegal U-turn right in front of them. But it wasn’t a drunken driver. It was a driverless Waymo taxi. The of... [4305 chars]