SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state.

  • Dem Bosain
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    1 year ago

    Can’t put a corporation in prison when they kill someone.

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      1 year ago

      We could.

      Might be better to just put the executives of those corporations in prison instead tho. I keep hearing how they’re worth their enormous salaries so they must be the ones responsible.

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        1 year ago

        But you can’t. Corporations are formed specifically to protect the people behind them from legal accountability. The CEO/ board can really only be punished for crimes against the corporation (embezzling, not trying to make money for shareholders, etc.) Even when the corp. very obviously causes deaths, it will just declare bankruptcy and reform under another name. Johnson & Johnson was sued for killing people because there’s asbestos in talcum powder, so they spun off the talc division into a different company, and then had that company declare bankruptcy.

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          Wasn’t entirely serious. However if “corporations are people” then maybe they should face the same penalties people do.

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      1 year ago

      But you can put management that is responsible for the corporation in prison.

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        1 year ago

        I have…oh shit, just $1…I have one dollar that says you can’t.