Will your 'driverless' car ever get a traffic ticket?

"“Imagine that someone invents a time machine. Does she break the law by using that machine to travel to the past? Whether the new technology is time machines or automated vehicles, the answer is not an automatic yes or no.” The statement opens a recent paper by Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Professor Smith’s paper deals with the question of “driverless cars.”"