Well, one can argue that someone willing to drive after his license is revoked is also willing to lie about the Tesla crashing itself. It seems super reasonable to wait for Tesla side instead of rushing to conclusions.
https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-gov...
Highlights:
> The company, for nearly 200 years of its existence (1602–1800), had effectively transformed itself from a corporate entity into a state or an empire in its own right.
> With its pioneering institutional innovations and powerful roles in world history, the company is considered by many to be the first major, first modern, first global, most valuable, and most influential corporation ever seen.
William Dalrymple has a tome of a book about the English East India Company, which I hope to check out someday soon: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/11/anarchy-relent...
Jason Hickel is also an invaluable source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-st...
> The Tesla's Autopilot driver-assist system was engaged when it struck the police car, a blue Dodge Charger with its emergency lights activated, police officials tweeted.
Or did I misunderstand and are you saying you don't believe the police report here?
I had assumed the reasonable thing would occur; the plates would expire and become suspended, a non-issue for a chassis sawz-alled to bits and sold for scrap.
Nope! Not in IL. While receiving a benign speeding ticket on a road-trip out of state, I learned my ostensibly valid DL was suspended, and what it feels like to be handcuffed, arrested, and processed at the station.
Why had IL suspended my DL? Well, I was forced to stay out-of-state and appear in court that week, eventually learning why IL had suspended my license to defend my innocence: the disassembled vehicle hadn't passed a smog test that year. They suspended the vehicle owner's DL for this nonsense. The judge in the state I had to defend myself in didn't even know what a smog test was. It was a clown show across the board, with my pocket footing the bill at every turn.
A suspended license is not a reliable indicator of anything other than bureaucratic fundraising by the state.
That expectation seems to be at odds with everything I as a non car owner remember from my parents selling their cars. As far as I can find there often is no explicit requirement to deregister the car/plates, but with the exact problem you ran into: Even if everything ended up suspended the registration would still point at you, with a very good chance that you end up liable.
> hadn't passed a smog test that year.
Among the top reasons for people driving around with an expired registration apparently. So the police found exactly what it expected when it saw that expired registration with your name on it.
Selling and letting registration lapse are two very different things.
Most states only criminalize driving a car with a expired registration. I have half a dozen cars with expired registration to my name and it's a non issue as long as I don't get pulled over driving them (which would be really hard to do since they either aren't complete enough to be drive-able or have long since been turned into tin cans).
What are you talking about? I wasn't driving a vehicle with expired tags, the vehicle in my name triggering the DL suspension had been DIY scrapped and the plates destroyed. I was pulled over for speeding, driving a friend's car on a road trip during my turn at the wheel.
Reading comprehension fail...
Can you point out where you wrote that in your previous comment?
What the hell else is this supposed to mean? That I both scrapped the car and was driving around with the plates for some reason?
Plus, wouldn't it be spelled "sawzall-ed" (though, more likely, just "sawzalled")?
Isn't one still fully responsible even when the car is in autopilot mode? I feel like blaming a Tesla for "crashing itself in autopilot" is a bit like saying a Mercedes "crashed itself" because you put it on cruise control / lane assist / collision detection mode so you could text from the driver seat or some such.
Same as any other situation. If one 737 Max crashes, Boeing may blame the pilots. But if another crashes, Boeing has to take some responsibility.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/un...
(I don't believe this group has a particular tendency to want to hit stationary objects, though.)
Fun fact: North Dakota has the most drivers with a suspended license at 7.75% and is followed by Ohio at 5.62% [2].
[1]: https://insurify.com/insights/cities-with-the-most-suspended... [2]: https://insurify.com/insights/the-10-states-with-the-most-su...