Driverless Cars Getting Embroiled Into Street Racing, Pedal To The Metal

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

Autonomous self-driving cars need to know about street racing

Put the pedal to the medal. Be fast or be last.

You might find of idle interest that in Los Angeles alone there are about 700 illegal and completely unsanctioned road or street races each year (that’s based on the latest stats collected in 2017). In some cases the race arises on an impromptu basis, wherein one car driver challenges another car driver on a spur of the moment basis. In today’s world, the use of social media has allowed illegal road races to become much larger and semi-organized affairs. There are social media sites that you can post your intent to engage in an illegal road race and it will give a heads-up for people that want to come and watch or perhaps directly participate.

If you are under the assumption that only the drivers would be facing the chance of going to jail for breaking the law by undertaking an illegal road race, you might want to know that bystanders can also be arrested.

According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) here in California, anyone that aids in a speed contest, including those that are merely viewing it, observing it, watching it, or witnessing it, they too are violated the Speed Contest law (speed contest is another name given to the illegal road races).