I can’t imagine driving recklessly at a camera-covered car. Seems like Waymo could/should just forward videos of clearly trying to cause an accident to the local police
In Seattle my car was stolen on camera and was later found with a million identifying pieces of information in it, including the thief's security guard uniform complete with name badge, along with receipts at local pot shops with their name and phone number and... nothing happened.
It's hard for me to imagine they're going to running around trying to ticket people for abrupt lane changes.
Why is it hard for you to believe something isn't working as expected?
In Seattle, WA if it's a >$5,000 class B felony theft, then yea, sure. Living in the suburbs? Yes, sure.
Couple years back someone stole a bunch of prescription drugs out of my neighbor's car (pharmacist - they were for his job), police wouldn't touch it. Now they're even less likely, because the city isn't prosecuting as much.
And by not as much, I mean even lower than where we were at last year. Seattle went from a >80% prosecution rate in 2007 to a ~50% prosecution rate for non-traffic in 2017.
Therefore letting the aggressive, reckless drivers build up a sense of immunity and excitement seems like a Sun Tsu move to me.
When the camera-covered car has its first day in court, it may be that all the cases are filed at once (by that company, and Waymo may not be the first to pull the trigger on the lawsuits).
Statute of limitations in California is a bit tricky, but just as a baseline, assume this Sun Tsu-esque company collects evidence for 5 years. Judges may actually look favorably on the company waiting to make sure their cases can be decided en masse. Of course, the media will be all over it.
(To be honest, I think any hostile move such as a lawsuit is an asshole move, so I think I'm agreeing with you?)
They wouldn't need to claim the cases were grouped together, just that the inevitable appeal would be more likely to be found binding if the cases were all still being adjudicated.
Or something like that. No court case is a slam-dunk.
Strongly disagree. There amount of contempt people have for asshole drivers is massive. Videos of people driving like assholes and getting caught is a mainstay of subreddits like http://old.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars and /r/InstantKarma
I see people practically begging one another on facebook to upload video about the mildest of complaints.