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I hope the cops showed up at his house and confiscated his vehicle.

One advantage of existence of self-driving cars is the state can permanently revoke someone's ability to own or operate manually driven motor vehicles, without the argument this is ruining their lives.

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But taxis already existed?
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In many places in the US they effectively do not.
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Is is a receivable argument in a US court ? Or does it just influence a jury ?
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There will always be some threshold at which this argument can be made.

Driving 200 in a school zone? License revoked, certainly.

Driving 60 in a 55? Just a speeding ticket.

Pick some line in between the two where that argument seems like it could go either way.

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Where I live in Canada, there's careless driving and dangerous driving. Dangerous driving is in the criminal code. Careless driving is a citation akin to speeding.

I've seen courts grant an exception from a license suspension, for normal (but a suspendable amount of) citations such as speeding or something of that ilk.

Those drivers licenses have special wording on them, that indicate the person may only drive to and from work, and often has the address the person has to drive to and from.

However I've also seen contractors allowed to drive to and from job sites, and directly home.

This is in a province of Canada, and dangerous driving or alcohol use, would invalidate that ability to get an exception.

This driver with the Waymo sounds like dangerous driving.

Unclear if in this US State the situation is similar.

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Some group (my bet is on "transit advocates") will try and paint Waymo as "Flock on wheels".
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Well, they basically are. But that's not alone a good enough argument against SDVs.
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Good thing we get wiser with age. Oh, wait no we don't. We insist on driving while beeing unable to look over the shoulder or having dementia. Knew somebody whose by no deceased dementia afflicted father used google to navigate him home when he forgot where he was. Thats the accidents with a "confused" driver, not from the accident.
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Which country is this? In the UK they take your licence off you straight away as soon as there is a dementia diagnosis, I believe.
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Most people are losing their facilities years before any formal diagnosis and plenty of people, especially those who don't want to lose their freedom simply won't go to the doctor for a diagnosis. Nobody can force someone to see a doctor.
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My father was one of these. He lived across the country from us adult children and just seemed to be slowing down but an unrelated traumatic event exposed his early onset dementia acutely when his reactions to it were so strange. It also seemed to knock the facade off his familiarity with day to day life that was somewhat hiding his dementia. We then took him to the doctor and he was diagnosed.

Luckily he did not put up a fight when we took his keys but up to that point he was driving a giant truck around every day, seemingly mostly on instinct. I am still thankful that did not end in tragedy before we were able to move him into a controlled environment.

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I have friends who dealt with the same thing with their father except the father insisted absolutely nothing was wrong, he was fine, everything was fine. They eventually got him diagnosed and into assisted living but it took literally years, plural, he lost thousands of dollars to scammers, and had multiple car crashes.
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I wonder what the solution to this problem is?
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