[ocdtrekkie]

So I assume Waymo will be immediately banned from any residential areas until they can demonstrate the ability to follow the laws of the road?

The problem is there is zero enforcement. We know the vehicle is not safe around schoolchildren so the appropriate incentive needs to be applied to get the issue addressed.

[sahila]

> So I assume Waymo will be immediately banned from any residential areas until they can demonstrate the ability to follow the laws of the road?

Why do you apply a different standard to waymos than to humans?

[PunchyHamster]

> Why do you apply a different standard to waymos than to humans?

Show me waymo's driving license and the test it passed to get it

[ocdtrekkie]

I don't. If a human repeatedly violates the traffic laws they loose their license. Waymo apparently doesn't.

[thereisnospork]

Humans. Humans repeatedly violate traffic laws. Humans behind the wheel are killing 10's of thousands every year. Yet we keep giving these drugged up meatbags licenses.

[lokar]

I would settle for a fine each time, about $1000 in CA, and a point on some employees license.

[bombcar]

Just impound the vehicle and crush it. The free market will solve it. ;)

[lokar]

Don't forget to remove the battery first

[olyjohn]

Or leave it in there, and sell profitable tickets to the show.

[ocdtrekkie]

$1,000 is not a meaningful amount of money to Google. Maybe if, based on the fact the entire fleet uses the same software, it is fined $1,000 per car in their fleet each time an incident occurs?

Bear in mind $1,000 per incident is not enough money to justify paying a software developer to fix it.

[Manuel_D]

If this behavior actually is a prevalent issue, then there will be many fines that add up. If Google doesn't rack up many fines, then this problem is evidently rare.

[drivingmenuts]

Ticket and require a company lawyer and programmer to show up in traffic court for every infraction and explain current status of self-driving software.

[ardacinar]

Well, you can just treat them like they are anybody else. So, $1000 fine plus a point on the license of Waymo. And as suggested by another commenter in the thread, if the cars in the fleet (collectively) accumulate more than 4 points within 12 months, Waymo loses its license. As in, all cars operated by Waymo.

[vkou]

Is that how any corporate fleet works?

[PunchyHamster]

corporate fleets have different driver per the vehicle, not same code running everything

[asdff]

What would justify it? Full years salary of a developer plus their fringe benefits? Probably what $300k fine?

[lokar]

per passenger on the bus, paid to their families

[toast0]

Fines plus license suspension are authorized in Texas law [1]

[1] https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._transp._code_section_...