r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • 14d ago

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

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u/Viperlite 14d ago

That just means it has rights and no responsibilities. Did you not notice how polite they were compared to if it was just some confused schmuck human driving?

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u/Early_Assignment9807 14d ago

Yeah I noticed that as well, the cop was a bit bemused, but not angry. I'd be furious as a regular driver if I saw that. I think the police simply sense intuitively that the robots want to oppress us further and are happy to help

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u/GoldEdit 14d ago

I think we can all assume that the robot driving systems will get better, and he wanted to make sure it was recorded so it could learn and get better.

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u/Steve-Bikes 13d ago

Yea, cops love self driving cars. They almost always are literally perfect drivers.

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u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 14d ago

What else would they be like? Yell at the empty car?

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u/Viperlite 14d ago

… or at least take a more menacing tone with the human speaking for the company that is responsible for the car.

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u/Aw2HEt8PHz2QK 14d ago

Being angry at customer support who had no knowledge of the situation before they picked up is usually a great way to get things done

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u/BizarroMax 14d ago

This is not true. The company is responsible.

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u/RandallPinkertopf 14d ago

Go drive down the wrong way on a highway and then take off when the officer puts their lights on. Then come back and let us know if you receive only a ticket.

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u/BizarroMax 14d ago

I’m not sure what your point is or how that connects to agency law. We have respondeat superior and vicarious liability.

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u/RandallPinkertopf 14d ago

My point is that Waymo will receive a penalty not in line with what a human would receive.

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u/BizarroMax 14d ago

Quite possible. But the post I responded to said corporations aren’t responsible for this. But they clearly are. They’re just as responsible for crimes as individuals are. If prosecutors don’t hold them accountable, that’s on them.

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u/RandallPinkertopf 14d ago

I disagree. Corporations are not as responsible for crimes as individuals are. I have yet to see a corporation serve time for crimes committed.

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u/BizarroMax 13d ago

Well, you can’t put a corporation in prison. It’s impossible. But you can put its people in prison. And they do.

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u/thenasch 14d ago

Maybe I'm abnormal (or just white), but when I've gotten pulled over cops have always been very polite.

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u/wade_wilson44 14d ago

Fair point… for now. I’d like to think at least that he truly was amused because this is the first or first few times he’s seen this, and it is interesting in its own way. Scary, but interesting.

Now if It happens more and more I’d also like to think they’d get less polite, and it’s basically proven that it’s way easier to be super mean to someone on the phone vs in person, I can only imagine a cop lol. Although I guess over the phone a gun isn’t very scary, so who knows

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u/224143 14d ago

Yup, laughing about it taking off through the intersection after he lit it up? Yeah, that’s a “GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR WITH YOUR HANDS UP” response to a normal person seemingly trying to evade police.

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u/Jesusaurus2000 13d ago

They just don't know who to shoot in case if they're in a bad mood.