Re:Will cars that drive themselves mean no more DU
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The Future of the Car
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In California (IIRC, it's been a while), the laws reads something to the effect that if you're in control of the vehicle, you can be busted. So, as you say, you're in the fron seat, the motor is off, and they keys are in the ignition, you are in control of whether the car starts up and drives away.
If you are also using your example of a complelty autonomous car, and the passengers then have no control other than the destination point, then I don't think the DUI laws could apply, since the car is acting as the designated driver. But if there's a "manual" option to drive the car yourself, then that law could apply.
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In California (IIRC, it's been a while), the laws reads something to the effect that if you're in control of the vehicle, you can be busted. So, as you say, you're in the fron seat, the motor is off, and they keys are in the ignition, you are in control of whether the car starts up and drives away. If you are also using your example of a complelty autonomous car, and the passengers then have no control other than the destination point, then I don't think the DUI laws could apply, since the car is acting as the designated driver. But if there's a "manual" option to drive the car yourself, then that law could apply.