Driverless cars are becoming more common in some California cities, but when the autonomous vehicles violate traffic laws, police haven’t been able to ticket them - until now. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has announced new regulations on autonomous vehicles (AVs), including a process for police to issue a “notice of AV noncompliance” directly to the car’s manufacturer. The new rules, which will go into effect 1 July, are part of a larger 2024 law that imposed deeper regulation on the technology. There have been a number of reports of the cars breaking traffic laws, including during a San Francisco blackout last year. The California DMV is calling the new rules “the most comprehensive AV regulations in the nation”. Under the new rules, police can cite AV companies when their vehicles commit moving violations. The rules will also require the companies to respond to calls from police and other emergency officials within 30 seconds, and will issue penalties if their vehicles enter active emergency zones.
Treat the company as a single driver, specifically, complete with the three strike system.
The purpose of that system for a real person is to change the behavior of an individual. When the system that operates these cars is a single entity, you’re essentially giving the system (numberOfCars x chances) chances, and the behavior cannot be changed because there is no consequence.
I went ahead and crunched the numbers.
According to my calculations, there is approximately a 0.00% chance that Gruesome Gavin would do anything to jeopardize the profits of Silicon Valley.
There is however a 0.08% chance he might consider the possibility of thinking about imposing an extremely mild inconvenience.
So… fingers crossed!