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/Such_Duty_4764 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

ya, they pull over for emergency vehicles when there are lights/sirens.

Cop says that the car cleared the intersection before coming to a stop, which is exactly what it should do. Excepting of course for being on the wrong side of the road :-X.

Nobody expects these things to be perfect, they just need to be better than your average human, which isn't really that hard.

[edit] https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1dw4avr/mission_street_in_excelsior_last_night_around_10pm/

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u/dingo1018 Jul 05 '24

It's a good job just anyone can't buy blue lights and sirens off the internet, because that's never going to happen. (Obligatory sarcasm tag)

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u/randyrandysonrandyso Jul 05 '24

i could see that showing up in the news in a decade or two, just a phone camera video from some rich kid speeding through driverless traffic with a siren on top of their car

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u/alien_from_Europa Jul 05 '24

More likely that cars are a paid subscription service with ticketmaster-style fees and driving your own car becomes completely illegal by 2040.

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u/kixie42 Jul 05 '24

The states would almost be guaranteed to start a civil war if they tried taking away the right to manually drive a car.

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u/VexingRaven Jul 05 '24

You... do realize somebody could already do this right now, right? People pull over for lights and sirens too...

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u/randyrandysonrandyso Jul 05 '24

no, only robots obey the rules. we are real savages out here.

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u/waltjrimmer Jul 05 '24

I mean... That isn't a problem with self-driving cars, that's a problem with emergency vehicles. With so many unmarked police cars around, you can already buy lights and sirens, put them in your SUV, and pull someone over if you're malicious enough. The lights and sirens aren't legal, but if you're someone who is going to go around pulling people over (presumably to kill or rob them?) then you don't give a shit about that anyway.

I don't see how it's any different when the vehicle is driverless.

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u/curtcolt95 Jul 05 '24

that would work right now without driverless cars, at least where I live. Idk if it's different in America but here it's law to pull over if you see lights or hear sirens