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California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Amuletta@lemmy.ca to c/offbeat@lemmy.ca

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"What if it shows up in court to fight the ticket, Darryl? What then?"

"Oh geez, I don't know. Don't even think about it."

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[–] protist@mander.xyz 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Parking tickets are civil violations, speeding tickets are criminal. Two totally different systems. Police don't typically hand out parking tickets either

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I may have missed that this was the us and shit makes no sense there.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Of all the things that don't make sense here, that we have separate criminal and civil court systems is not one of them