I'm willing to bet there are "anti-cruising" ordinances on the book in SF that they could use to ticket the dead-heading self driving cars.
@ncweaver Alternatively: don't cars have to have a driver in charge at all times? If there's no driver aboard, only a passenger, and the passenger isn't in control of the vehicle, charge the passenger with whatever the US equivalent of "driving without due care and attention" is. That'll drive the self-driving taxis out of business really fast …
@cstross @ncweaver and there's always this:
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1193272085/san-francisco-has-lots-of-self-driving-cars-theyre-driving-first-responders-nuts
Just ticket the owner of the car if there isn't a driver, and if the owner is a corporation with a bunch of self-driving cars they could wind up in a lot of trouble very fast.
@RandomDamage @cstross @ncweaver emergency responders should know to just put a cone on the bonnet to make them stop
@falken @RandomDamage @cstross @ncweaver They do know this and have started doing it!