DesFIP
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Joined: 11/25/2007 From: Apple County NY Status: offline
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Who is to say that if there was a driver, they wouldn't have been ticketed? You don't issue tickets to inanimate objects, you issue them to people. The person driving to be specific. As the passenger wasn't driving, they couldn't have been ticketed. There wasn't anyone to issue the ticket to. This is one of those cases where the law has not yet caught up with the technology. When miniature cameras first appeared it was legal to stick them on your shoe and take pictures up strange women's skirts. The law prohibiting this didn't get passed for months afterward. Or drone technology where suddenly new laws are being passed to prevent drones flying in commercial airspace or over stadiums. The debate about trying to take pictures of underaged females through their windows is still going on and how to protect the minors. If Mountain View is where the driverless car prototype will be tested, I'd be surprised if they don't add laws to address this shortly.
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