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Surely there are laws or a legal framework for what to do when a driverless car is pulled over. If not... why not impound it on the spot? If there was a violation and there is no driver then it's logical to conclude the software will duplicate the infraction, meaning it's legally untenable to allow the vehicle to continue to operate in autonomous service.

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That seems like an expensive option that solves very little. Whatever the infraction is, it is just as likely to be repeated by any car in the fleet. Better for the police to have a way of dealing with it and document it so it get addressed. Certainly whatever agreement the company has with the city can address this, including the company possibly paying per-incident money to the police for their time.

Certainly they should, at the very least, be paying the standard fine amount. But a broken headlight, for instance, isn't something you just pay the fine for and then ignore. You have to keep paying the fine if you don't fix it.

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