[Retric]

Those waypoints have legal implications.

It’s often illegal to make a U-Turn to avoid a police checkpoint for example. There’s no way someone can unstick a confused car without being able to make legally relevant choices.

[dekhn]

In California (and I think most places) it's not illegal to make a (legal) U-turn to avoid a police checkpoint or otherwise avoid a checkpoint.

[Retric]

Waymo is operating in many locations outside of California such as Florida and Texas, and it intends to expand to many more states.

[dekhn]

It is also legal to u-turn before a police checkpoint in Florida and Texas. In fact I think it's true to say that you can do this in any state.

[Retric]

If you see a checkpoint at sufficient distance to make a legal u turn before interacting with the police yes.

If a police officer is pointing at your car because they are going to search you no.

[dekhn]

So?

You made a series of factually incorrect statements which I have debunked based on trivially determined facts.

[Retric]

So I realized you misunderstood what I said.

For example, I said they operate in Texas as you called out California as your example. Texas doesn’t allow sobriety checkpoints but it’s an entirely new states worth of legal issues here.