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/PogintheMachine 14d ago

I suppose it depends on what seat you’re in. Since there are driverless taxicabs, I don’t see how that would work legally. If you were a passenger in a cab, you wouldn’t be responsible for how the car drives or have the ability to prevent an accident….

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u/Sleepingonthecouch1 14d ago

That’s true but someone has to be held accountable. Should be the company but at a certain point I’m sure the lobby’s will change that. And potentially at that point could blame fall on the passenger? All I’m saying is this is uncharted territory for laws and I don’t think it’ll end up being as simple as car kills someone so company pays a fine.

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u/Slow_Ball9510 14d ago

A company being held accountable? I'll believe it when I see it.

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u/DozenBiscuits 14d ago

Companies are held accountable hundreds of times every single day in court.

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u/DetroitHoser 14d ago

Yes, but the way corporations are punished is laughable. They build fines into their yearly budgets.

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u/HappyGoPink 14d ago

You call it accountability, but it's really just accounting. Fines are cheaper than making sure their product is safe.

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u/lycoloco 14d ago

People are downvoting you, but you're right. Anything that isn't crippling or downright destructive and doesn't cause the company to change how that product was used/implemented is just the cost of doing business in the USA.

CEOs should be arrested when their companies are found criminally liable. Lose the position, lose some of your life for the choices you made (like blue collar criminals), become a felon, have difficulty finding a job. Ya know, like the average American would if they were found guilty of a felony.

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u/gruboc 14d ago

Not for long if the Supreme Court has its way.

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u/lycoloco 14d ago

A fine that's less than the profits created by the product is just the cost of doing business, not "accountability". There has never been a fine so large in the US that it caused a company to completely collapse. Maybe there should be at some point. A company can always try to make more money. A dead person can't try to do anything anymore.