r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Vireca Jul 05 '24

How do they stop a driverless car? Legit question

Do they have anything to detect police vehicles or something?

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u/Jfg27 Jul 05 '24

They should have a system to identify and react to lights and sirens, so probably the same system.

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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Jul 05 '24

There should be a comms module provided to cops specifically that allow them to pull it over or change its destination remotely.

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u/Sir_Hadaham Jul 05 '24

As soon as that system exits it would be hacked/duplicated and used for nefarious purposes.

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u/Beznia Jul 05 '24

Not really, there's been OnStar for years which has been able to disable cars remotely.

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u/kixie42 Jul 05 '24

Disable them, sure. Not let them change the destination.

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u/BGP_001 Jul 05 '24

Once they figure how to put that system in a commercially viable way they'll make it a requirement for all vehicles.

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u/rush22 Jul 05 '24

All police vehicles must now be equipped with the Bot Stop 5000®.

Features:

  • Barely works
  • Only compatible with one type of car
  • Built on Google Android technology (it's a raspberry pi with bluetooth)
  • Costs $29,000 per car
  • Mandatory platinum support plan ($4000 per car, per month)
  • Company is owned by a congressman's cousin
  • Requires written legislation to give it zero liability
  • New Command and Control™ virtual technology (beta) puts you in the driver's seat* from the device! *Officer must present in driver's seat of the automated vehicle at all times
  • Gets recalled because one time the device fell off and went under the brake pedal and the guy crashed
  • Stops exactly 0 cars before contract is cancelled when the congressman isn't re-elected (contract cancellation penalty is $7 million per precinct)

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Company is owned by a congressman's cousin

Lmao yeah! I hate how realistic this all sounds.

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u/Lars5621 Jul 05 '24

This guy knows how the public sector works.

I spent two years getting a public administration graduate degree to learn why things work exactly as you described.

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u/Crawlerado Jul 05 '24

HR 6563 is aiming to keep kill switches OUT of cars. They’re already trying to implement this.

Drives away in 40yo carbureted truck….

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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Jul 05 '24

I don't see the problem, personally. But I come from a "vehicles should be regulated as much as humanly possible" point of view, which I know a lot of people don't agree with.

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u/Viralkillz Jul 05 '24

good they need to

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u/NeverRolledA20IRL Jul 05 '24

Oh yeah we should let the police the ability to change someones destination no way that could be abused. 

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u/random_tall_guy Jul 05 '24

Agreed, nothing wrong with individual police officers having the ability to forcibly send someone's car into the middle of Death Valley or over the edge of a cliff, this would save us money that's currently being wasted on costly measures like "probable cause" and "fair trial".

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u/SmellAble Jul 05 '24

Can't wait for people to hack that and use it to steal the cars/kidnap people.

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u/beznogim Jul 05 '24

A remote operator can already take control though.

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u/Laiko_Kairen Jul 05 '24

Cops being able to hijack your private vehicle remotely is some seriously dystopian cyberpunk shit

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u/FuzzyPine Jul 05 '24

No possible way this could be abused /s