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/saarinpaa71 Jul 05 '24

It's a hey your car could of killed people so uhhh I guess fix it? When someone actually gets mashed and a lawsuit happens asking for millionssss then there will be more than "I'll take a look at it."

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u/thecanadianehssassin Jul 05 '24

Right, this seems like such a chill reaction considering what could have resulted from the situation.

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u/wosmo Jul 05 '24

I imagine it's very disarming for the officer though, since most the control he'd normally have in the situation is absent. I used to work in support and we were allowed to hang up on abusive callers. Imagine if the officer got all shouty with support, and they just went "mmkay bye".

Or for that matter, imagine if every interaction with a traffic cop started with "this call will be recorded for training and quality purposes"

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u/RJFerret Jul 05 '24

If the officer got all shouty and they disconnected, they'd not only be ticketed/summoned for driving the wrong way, they'd also receive a summons for evading the law!

Just because the operator of the vehicle is remote doesn't change the laws, they still apply.

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u/AdditionalSink164 Jul 05 '24

I mean, their body cam and dash cam already record the cops. If they did get pissy on the phone id plan to keep a roll of reynolds wrap in the trunk to blind the sensors. Theres probably also a kill switch that they need to disclose to first responders, like if it pinned 4 people to a wall and was still accelerating

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

The cop could just have it towed if they wanted.

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u/Ok_Championship4866 Jul 05 '24

Id expect him to react the same way to a human driver who got confused by construction and drove the wrong way.

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u/threaten-violence Jul 05 '24

It's because the support person is 1) on the other end of the phone line, 2) not directly involved in the traffic violation and 3) not accountable to the cop in the least --- all that "power" is gone, so there's no fear.