A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi drives along a street in Los Angeles, California. The new law for fully autonomous vehicles – those designed to function without a human driver present – requires owners to file a safety and communication plan that law enforcement can use and to have a minimum of US$1mil (RM4.40mil) in liability insurance per vehicle, roughly 10 times higher than the amount for regular personal vehicles. — Getty Images/TNS
Early one morning last year, as state Rep Josh Bray left his small town of Mount Vernon in southeastern Kentucky to make his way to the Capitol in Frankfort, he decided to count how many drivers he saw texting or distracted by something else.
He quit counting after 24 when he saw a truck driver reading a newspaper while going down the road.
Uh-oh! Daily quota reached.
