Re:Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
by WildUtah on Friday November 13, 2015 @02:57AM
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Alphabet's Google, as we say, was operating the car. And corporations are people, my friend.
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Re:Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
by bryanrasmussen on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:06AM
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You know Alphabet has binder full of corporations so they can always send another one over to drive the car if the police take the current driver into custody.
Re:Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
by cbd1984 on Friday November 13, 2015 @05:48AM
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> And corporations are people
Can we have at least one discussion forum where the notion of corporate personhood isn't abused into idiocy like this? Maybe here on a discussion board run by Y Combinator, a company with the mission of helping to create new corporations?
Re:Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
by afarrell on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:24PM
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I agree that in general, this quote gets brought into the discussion rather blindly. But in this specific case, I assert (without an actual legal background) that the word "person" in this law would refer to Google and that this loophole wouldn't work.