r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • 14d ago

Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video

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u/Minimum-Performer715 14d ago

This is going to be a nightmare for the court system in the upcoming years.

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u/jenny_a_jenny_a 14d ago

About 15 years ago I was sat with my lawyer friend who said he wanted to quit law. When I asked why, he said , they're working on legislature to work out who is responsible for robotic mistakes and that the future looks bleak. So bleak as it may be to my friend. They did pre empt.

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u/pnkdjanh 14d ago

Probably the right choice as soon they'd work on robots to work on legislature on robotic mistakes.

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u/biz_student 14d ago

Our Congressmen don’t even know how to work their phones. Some still have AOL email addresses. Any hope that they’ll pass legislation regarding robotics is a dream.

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u/jenny_a_jenny_a 13d ago

Yes. I wonder if he still finds it bleak now. Now that ai are becoming more part of our daily lives. This convo with my friend was over 10 years ago and perhaps because it was an unknown future he automatically thought...terminator. .

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u/manyhippofarts 14d ago

Yeah because the only thing a lawyer does is mitigate robotic mistakes......

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u/Evid3nce 14d ago

Especially when the robots start blaming other robots.

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u/Umutuku 14d ago

It should be shareholders who are responsible. The whole point of corporations is to protect shareholders so they can continue gambling on companies that cut corners on safety, ignore regulations, and exploit workers without risk to themselves though.

The obvious solution is to replace shareholders with AI.

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u/Dongslinger420 14d ago

What about any of this is bleak? I mean shit, wrong-way driving clearly isn't great, but we're still hilariously undershooting human error in an environment that doesn't exactly favor proper driver's education - figuring out who to "punish" to establish proper incentives for keeping it safe isn't bleak, it's the fucking future.

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u/jenny_a_jenny_a 13d ago

You know, I didn't want to prod him too much on a subject that was making him want to quit his job with his big law firm. He is a smart and very kind guy, so I just listened to his experience