If I am driving on a road, and a flying saucer with a spotlight is hovering ahead waiting to land, do I have to stop in the roadway and yield to them? Or do they have to yield to cars in the road? I checked my states driving manual and they don’t mention alien air/spacecraft at all.

I would guess that the UFO would have the right of way, as traffic would have to eventually stop for them anyways. Should I just stop in the roadway and put my hazards on so the flying saucer pilot is aware I am yielding the right of way to them?

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    3·
    19 days ago

    I would imagine that legally, liability largely falls on the plane operator, though if you as a driver can avoid it, you would share in liability, perhaps moreso.

    1. Avoid things
    2. Then go by right-of-way

    Sort of how you approach 3/4-way stop signs (god I hate them).

    • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      19 days ago

      In my profession (trucking) the only thing that matters is preventable/nonpreventable. Liability is something for the insurance company to worry about (mostly).

      This might be an interesting topic to suggest to Mike Rafi or Legal Eagle though.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
      1·
      19 days ago

      But does the law give any rights to non human sentient extraterrestrial beings? If they are not a legal entity of any sort, this could lead to some interesting results.

      Let’s say you ram into their ship, could anyone sue anyone? What if they evaporate your car with a doom laser cannon? Maybe that’s sort of like crashing your car into a rock, as far as blame is concerned.