Just for fun...

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Owner must be a roofer

 

[Mr. Coffee]

Good question, which raises another.
Do you need a drivers license to own and ride in an autonomous vehicle of any kind?

I think there are two related questions:

1. Could an autonomous vehicle be allowed to drive around without any human in the vehicle at all?
2. Could someone who was intoxicated be in an autonomous vehicle and not get a DWI?

I imagine it is going to take many years to work all that out. Working that out will (in many ways) be more complex and ugly than getting autonomous vehicles to work reliably enough (which they still don't) in the first place. At this point in time all known autonomous vehicles still have scary failure modes that require human intervention with very rapid reaction times.

 

[PedalUma]

I hear that they are popular in LA.

Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Los Angeles, CA - Waymo

Fully autonomous rides are in LA County. With hundreds of millions of miles of driving experience across multiple cities, we can’t wait to bring Waymo, our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, to you.

waymo.com

 

[Mr. Coffee]

I hear that they are popular in LA.

Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Los Angeles, CA - Waymo

Fully autonomous rides are in LA County. With hundreds of millions of miles of driving experience across multiple cities, we can’t wait to bring Waymo, our fully autonomous ride-hailing service, to you.

waymo.com

https://www.reuters.com/technology/waymo-defends-use-remote-assistance-workers-robotaxi-operations-2026-02-17/

 

[Chargeride]

I think there are two related questions:

1. Could an autonomous vehicle be allowed to drive around without any human in the vehicle at all?
2. Could someone who was intoxicated be in an autonomous vehicle and not get a DWI?

I imagine it is going to take many years to work all that out. Working that out will (in many ways) be more complex and ugly than getting autonomous vehicles to work reliably enough (which they still don't) in the first place. At this point in time all known autonomous vehicles still have scary failure modes that require human intervention with very rapid reaction times.

In a robo taxi...no
If its got a steering wheel yes.