Cop pulls Waymo over for a left turn in the wrong lane. No one’s driving the car getting ticketed

As self-driving cars are making their way onto streets across the country, one question is on a lot of people’s minds: when the car messes up, who is at fault?

This isn’t a hypothetical question. While people in the artificial intelligence field have been claiming for years that driverless cars are safer than manned ones, there are numerous documented incidents of driverless cars breaking traffic laws and, occasionally, putting their passengers in danger.

For example, one driverless...