Can you be drunk riding in the "driver's seat" of a level 5 autonomous self-driving car (fully autonomous no steering wheel and no pedals)?
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1116942_bmw-explains-the-5-levels-of-self-driving-capability
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1116942_bmw-explains-the-5-levels-of-self-driving-capability
Anonymous
In my state, you can be charged with a DUI if you're sitting in your car with the keys in or out of the ignition. So hypothetically, you can be charged with DUI in a fully "autonomous car."
Anonymous
There will never be such a vehicle, so I'd worry about something else. Anyway, yes. The person "in control of the vehicle" can be arrested. I have actually seen passengers arrested IF they are in the front seat or IF they are immediately behind the driver because they could grab the wheel.
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People can and have been arrested for being drunk as a passenger because they are and can be a safety hazard. Not too common though.
linkus86
Yes you can. But I think your insinuation that no manual control would exist is dead wrong, and if so you would then be guilty of dui. The article says the vehicle can operate without a driver, but didn't say a driver couldn't operate the car.
Spock (rhp)
no. that is drunk driving. so called "self-driving" cars all require the operator to maintain the ability to intervene in the car's operation at any moment should circumstances require that. I do not foresee any state allowing what amounts to fully driverless cars within generations.