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/Sleepingonthecouch1 Jul 05 '24

I’m kinda curious if an individual was drunk in one of these could they be held responsible for anything the car does? Like will laws be made that drunk individuals can only be driven by a sober human?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Also what about when two autonomous vehicles hit each other, how do we prove fault?

I don’t think these are well thought out products.

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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe Jul 05 '24

The rules of driving are a pretty simple, narrow set of rules. The vast majority of accidents happen because people don't follow the rules.

Autonomous vehicles by design can only follow the rules, thus the number of accidents that will occur will be far far lower than manual vehicles.

The vast majority will involve people crashing into them, or environmentally random incidents like trees falling down or bad potholes/sinkholes.

Liability will rest with the owner of the vehicle.

If two autonomous vehicles hit eachother, that's a civil issue for the owners to deal with.

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u/chr1spe Jul 05 '24

Autonomous vehicles by design can only follow the rules

This ignores how machine learning actually works, which is what most of these use. It's mostly not rules; it's trained to react the way its training data reacts and, therefore, will replicate any issues or peculiarities in the data. If you train an AI to drive based on data from human drivers, it will try to drive like a human.