"For minor offences like speeding or parking tickets, the person sitting behind the driver’s wheel is almost certainly going to face the music, says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor in the School of Law at the University of South Carolina and expert on self-driving car law: “Under existing law, someone who is most immediately and obviously the operator of the vehicle would likely be treated as the driver.”"
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