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Is it fair for California to discriminate against People, in favor of Corporations and Robots?

Posted by Ken C on May 1, 2026, 12:52 pm

California has finally agreed to start giving tickets to robotaxi companies when their robots break the law.

For more than a decade:

Human drivers (rideshare, taxi, delivery, couriers):

Could get tickets
Could lose their license
Could get arrested
Could have their insurance rates raised
Could lose their job

Meanwhile:

Robo Taxi companies:

Could operate fleets of cars
Could break traffic laws
Could not receive tickets
Could not lose a “driver’s license”
Could not be penalized the way humans are

And yet Robo Taxi's were directly competing with human drivers for the same work.

Does that seem fair?

Am I just biased because I'm a human driver?

I remember a court saying corporations had the same rights as a human

Posted by Lucky on May 2, 2026, 8:56 am, in reply to "Is it fair for California to discriminate against People, in favor of Corporations and Robots?"

Maybe now we can understand it ment much more than that. I feel machines that take human jobs should pay into SS for the man hours of labor they took away

Good point. Also they have moved onto the realm of imminent domain.

Posted by GOG on May 11, 2026, 6:32 pm, in reply to "I remember a court saying corporations had the same rights as a human "

That was once the purview of government ONLY.

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