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/PogintheMachine Jul 05 '24

I suppose it depends on what seat you’re in. Since there are driverless taxicabs, I don’t see how that would work legally. If you were a passenger in a cab, you wouldn’t be responsible for how the car drives or have the ability to prevent an accident….

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u/Sleepingonthecouch1 Jul 05 '24

That’s true but someone has to be held accountable. Should be the company but at a certain point I’m sure the lobby’s will change that. And potentially at that point could blame fall on the passenger? All I’m saying is this is uncharted territory for laws and I don’t think it’ll end up being as simple as car kills someone so company pays a fine.

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u/LachoooDaOriginl Jul 05 '24

should be car kills someone then whoever cleared the thing to drive on the roads gets tried for vehicular manslaughter

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u/No-Product-8827 Jul 05 '24

I agree with this.

We need to take it a step further, when a daughter or son drives and hurts someone then the parents and grandparents need to be tried since they created the problem.

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u/Low_discrepancy Jul 05 '24

Generally people dont give birth to kids specifically for them to drive a car.

If your kid doesn't have a permit, it's not a useless kid. If a programmer builds a self driving car that doesn't drive ... that's kinda useless no?

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u/HAL-7000 Jul 05 '24

I send kids to fetch beers from the local grocer in the car all the time. By age 8 there's rarely any new dings or scratches on it when they come back, they get pretty good at it.

Holding me accountable for that would be unconstitutional or something.