{"id":20267,"date":"2025-09-30T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/california-police-stumped-after-trying-to-ticket-driverless-car-for-illegal-u-turn\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:37:35","slug":"california-police-stumped-after-trying-to-ticket-driverless-car-for-illegal-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/california-police-stumped-after-trying-to-ticket-driverless-car-for-illegal-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn\u2019t issued, as \u2018our citation books don\u2019t have a box for \u201crobot\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>If a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week.<\/p>\n<p>During a DUI enforcement operation, officers in San Bruno pulled over a car without anyone behind the wheel after the autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn at a light. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sanbrunopolice\/posts\/pfbid02bxuVSm8Wjr8tzpGf8916Y6Auxaq3q4CMDHkfeBdHbcMDUx9oEQKPQWJ6FdrQiTuNl\">post<\/a> by the San Bruno police department on Saturday shows an officer looking into a Waymo \u2013 the leading autonomous ride-hailing vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area \u2013 after stopping the signature white car.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/29\/waymo-illegal-u-turn-driverless-car\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bc4628983fd8fdb4643457c9ebe03e748155e00f\/5_0_1790_1432\/master\/1790.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=219c677ed7366f4fab65736ac7966bd1\" title=\"California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn\" \/>San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn\u2019t issued, as \u2018our citation books don\u2019t have a box for \u201crobot\u201d\u2019<br \/>\nIf a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week.<br \/>\nDuring a DUI enforcement operation, officers in San Bruno pulled over a car without anyone behind the wheel after the autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn at a light. A post by the San Bruno police department on Saturday shows an officer looking into a Waymo \u2013 the leading autonomous ride-hailing vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area \u2013 after stopping the signature white car. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn\u2019t issued, as \u2018our citation books don\u2019t have a box for \u201crobot\u201d\u2019 If a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/california-police-stumped-after-trying-to-ticket-driverless-car-for-illegal-u-turn\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}