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viraptor

Due to unfortunate phrasing, "no person" was driving at such slow speed ;)

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Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, was operating the car, no?

Is BMW operating my car when I turn on cruise control?

Cruise Control only regulates speed so no.

This car was engineered by people representing Google with the intent to allow it to operate completely autonomously.

Alphabet's Google, as we say, was operating the car. And corporations are people, my friend.

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.

> 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?

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.

> I assert (without an actual legal background) that the word "person" in this law would refer to Google

Of course it wouldn't.

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