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Article #216Re: No Hands Across America - Robot car drives from Pittsburgh to LA
From: Robert Rubinoff
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <3ssvkg$arl@handler.Eng.Sun.COM>, Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@Sun.COM> wrote: >Todd Jochem (tjochem@RI.CMU.EDU) wrote: >: ... the vehicle will log over 3000 self-driving miles. >Ok, so if you get a speeding ticket, who pays ? :-) Has anyone actually looked into the legal aspects of this? I'm no lawyer, but it seems quite likely to me that if the car is pulled over for any reason, the "driver" will end up in jail (at least for a day or two) and the vehicle may be seized. And while CMU would probably be able to get it back eventually, it could take months (not to mention the unpleasantness for the driver). Robert
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd6dd,6ac6bc68d0911896 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: fb37e,6ac6bc68d0911896 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb37e,public X-Google-Thread: 11c21e,6ac6bc68d0911896 X-Google-Attributes: gid11c21e,public X-Google-Thread: 100110,6ac6bc68d0911896 X-Google-Attributes: gid100110,public X-Google-Thread: f7386,6ac6bc68d0911896 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7386,public From: rubinoff+@cs.cmu.edu (Robert Rubinoff) Subject: Re: No Hands Across America - Robot car drives from Pittsburgh to LA Date: 1995/07/05 Message-ID: <3teel7$fpi@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 105632042 references: <3snc72$ah8@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> <3ssvkg$arl@handler.Eng.Sun.COM> organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon newsgroups: cmu.cs.general,cmu.cs.robotics,cmu.cs.robotics-students,comp.robotics,comp.robotics.misc