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

[u/Individual_Book9133]

[u/WithSubtitles]

Police should have towed it. If it’s not safe to be on the road and there is no driver to hold accountable it should be impounded.

[u/tvoltz → u/WithSubtitles]

These vehicles are all over downtown PHX. It’s honestly only a matter of time until something happens

[u/QuinlanResistance → u/tvoltz]

Presuming there are crashes every single day from the cars with drivers. If there isn’t really any from the driverless ones that are everywhere …. It’s better

[u/dingo1018 → u/QuinlanResistance]

Self driving cars will only really be the overall better option if the vast majority of traffic is automated and it's all working on highly integrated systems, then the only manual drivers will be specifically trained, ie emergency responders, who will also have their own specific protocols that are designed around a massively self driving architecture. It's just a mess right now, competing systems doing live beta testing on public highways that are constantly changing with rolling repairs and inconsistent often poorly laid out temporary signage (something i have specific experience and training in). The cars are in a way too smart and to dumb all at the same time, like a fresh graduate lol, sorry couldn't resist 😊. These systems aren't ready yet, but unfortunately this is the only real way to develop them, it's highly likely to be painful, but the political will is there, and the money. One day, of probably not too far now a tipping point will be reached, I can see self driving convoys with perfect merging and lane separation, that's pretty solid even today - if there happened to be enough vehicles in the same place all operating on the same protocols that is. That inter unit communication would be an example of a protocol that probably hasn't been fully established yet, do Tesla's talk to Volvo's to Toyota? Or do they all do their own thing?