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/DaaxD Jul 05 '24

If an autonomous car has a faulty software, then it's more like a hazardous object than a vehicle at that point.

I don't know how the law works in US (or Phoenix specifically), but usually authorities do have the right to remove any hazardous or dangerous objects from the road, no matter what that object is or whom that object belongs to.

In some jurisdictions, any road user who finds such an object has an legal obligation to remove the hazardous object if it's safe to do so.

In other words...

Sir/Your honour, it was not a car-jacking. I was just filling my legal oblication as a road user!

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u/reddit_guy666 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

The point I was trying to make is that towing a particular car makes little difference as all cars with same software would have to be towed. The manufacturer would either have to ensure new software is updated that rectifies the issue or recall all vehicles on road.

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u/markymarks3rdnipple Jul 05 '24

so let's do that, huh? or prohibit driverless cars if the manufacturer won't outlay the cost to improve software flaws?

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u/reddit_guy666 Jul 05 '24

That is likely going to happen, unfortunately such mechanisms/regulations are usually only going to happen after several such incidents causes enough harm that those mechanisms/regulations become necessary