*Lopsided Legal Accountability, Online and Off: Political Ads, Sales Taxes and Driver's Licenses

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(* Denotes one bliki appendage, below.)  The Honest Ads Act has not passed into law, but if it did it would bring parity between online and offline media platforms. (Broadcasters and newspapers are already held to the standards that the Honest Ads Act would hold online platforms to - a disclosure of who paid for each political ad.)

Driverless cars are not subject to the driver tests that human drivers are. Even though 50 different companies create their own driverless car technology, their own firmware and software that stitches together the radar, lidar and ultrasound that together comprise the "Autonomous Vehicle" AV's vision.

Sales tax is applied to any purchase a consumer makes in a real store which rents space. But it's not applied to an online purchase in most states.

Update 1: A new law has limited the number of taxi drivers from picking up passengers at San Francisco airport SFO. This law does not apply to Uber and Lyft drivers. KQED: In Latest Blow to S.F. Cabs, SFO Restricts Most Drivers From Organizing at Airport.
"Under SFO's new rule, Lyft and Uber drivers will not be able to organize at most places in the airport either. But unlike taxicabs, all those drivers can still continue to pick up passengers at the airport."



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Further Reading:
"These regulations are needed, the articles say, to sort out the problem of who will be at fault when an AV is involved in a crash that is its fault."   parkingtoday.com/blog/






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