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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by paulmd on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:59PM (#12167527)
This is purely opinion-based, but I think the problem is primarily local/city-level. That's where most of the current problem with ticket farming happens, and once driverless cars are commercially available I think it will be relatively unpalatable to ban them at a state level or higher.
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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by dexwiz on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @02:18PM (#12167672)
You can pass traffic laws that target driverless cars without outright banning them. The cronies at a local/city-level that pass laws to turn traffic into a source of income have friends in state and federal. Or move to the state/federal level. Is the Federal government immune from passing similar laws?
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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by pyre on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @05:44PM (#12168945)
If this sort of thing becomes common enough at the local-/start-level, I can see it becoming a legal battlefield for the companies that stand to benefit from driverless cars.
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