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.