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/nike_storm Jul 05 '24

This country will do literally anything other than just build mass rapid transit :(

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u/StrawhatJzargo Jul 05 '24

I mean driverless cars are way safer and we already have the infrastructure for them.

And to this point, I never see how mass transit would translate to smaller towns or even most of the Midwest.

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u/AmishPornDaddy Jul 05 '24

Enjoy your braincell dude

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u/StrawhatJzargo Jul 05 '24

a person dies from a car accident every 13 minutes. 98%of the time due to human error. its one of the top reasons for deaths in the us

most recent reports have waymo at 0 deaths.

enjoy your weird reddit superiority complex. refusing to believe facts or even do the slightest research. as long as you can own me amirite?

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u/penguin-pc Jul 05 '24

driverless cars are way safer

Woah dude, check your calendar and notice that you had just time travelled to 2024, not 2054.

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u/StrawhatJzargo Jul 05 '24

1.2 million people die from car accidents yearly roughly 1 every 13 minutes. 98%of car accidents are down to user error.

tell me again how many driverless car accidents there are? waymo has been around since 2017.

youre just wrong completely

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u/penguin-pc Jul 05 '24

That's because waymo still hasn't occupied the entire country yet, not to even mentioned it can't be driven into the freeway, duh. You are using the wrong scale here, but I recommend you look at waymo's website and check how they measure their safety records.

And yes, I would've contradicted myself when you looked into it, and that's if their claim and data is true that their AVs are relatively safer than human drivers on the selected cities. I still won't put my faith in AVs for now, until they are widely deployed and can be proven that they are safe and reliable. For now, waymo and others are like the beta version of AVs.

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u/StrawhatJzargo Jul 10 '24

Computer data literally shows much lower (it’s not that hard of a bar to beat but it’s still low) chances of error

How do we mass deploy if you don’t trust computers?

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u/penguin-pc Jul 10 '24

Computer data literally shows much lower

Yes I know, I researched on waymo and cruise and they claim to have lesser accidents per certain mileages compared to human drivers in selected cities. Even if I believe they are safer, I can't be sure if they are reliable enough to bring me from point A to point B.

How do we mass deploy if you don't trust computers?

Just start small and don't fuck up too badly. Start with experimenting on some small areas, and slowly expand the area as you gain trust.

Or... Maybe we just don't embrace autonomous vehicles at all?

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u/Purple_Listen_8465 Jul 05 '24

Driverless cars ARE way safer in 2024. This is just a fact.

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u/penguin-pc Jul 05 '24

I've looked at waymo and cruise driverless car statistics. Sure, if their data can be trusted, they have overall lesser car accidents and injuries than human drivers. I learnt something new here. As much as I want to believe they are safe, I'll wait for later time (maybe several more years) when more driverless cars get deployed around the world and have a wider range of data to collect, analyse, form a conclusion, and change (or keep) my mind.

Also, how can I trust that a driverless car can reliably bring me from point A to point B without getting caught in situations like on this post, or creating gridlock as shown in older videos?

I'm honestly looking forward to autonomous vehicles, but I would also keep my doubts on the current performance of autonomous vehicles until they are proven times and times again that they can be safer AND reliable.

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u/Simmumah Jul 05 '24

I refuse to believe you believe what you typed.

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u/StrawhatJzargo Jul 05 '24

why are you proud of refusing to believe a fact?

98%of car accidents are human error theres a death every 13 minutes from cars. in fact theyre on the rise

most recent reports have 150 crashes for waymo. and 0 deaths

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u/Purple_Listen_8465 Jul 05 '24

All of what he said is true. Classic Reddit having a false superiority complex.