Police stop car for road rule infraction, find there’s no driver at all
Police in one California city were conducting a DUI sting operation, and watched in disbelief as a car pulled a U-turn right in front of them.
An illegal U-turn.
So they pulled it over, and gave the driver … nothing.
There wasn’t a driver.
Think autonomous cars are programmed to follow traffic laws? Think again. San Bruno police officers pulled over a Waymo car with no driver while conducting a DUI crackdown.
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It happened in San Bruno where police released a statement about DUI enforcement … “with a plot twist.”
“During a grant-funded DUI enforcement operation, our officers observed something unusual: an autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn right in front of them at a light.
“That’s right … no driver, no hands, no clue,” police said.
Police stopped the vehicle and contacted Waymo, which was operating it.
A ticket couldn’t be issued because there was no driver, and a state law allowing for those tickets still is in the future.
“Hopefully the reprogramming will keep it from making any more illegal moves,” officers wrote on social media.
At Not the Bee a report explained officials at Waymo claimed the autonomous driving system was “designed to respect the rules of the road.”
The company was investigating.