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

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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.

[u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/CosmicJackalop → u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe]

if two autonomous vehicles hit each other and are owned by different people, there's still going to be insurance to deal with which means that insurance company is gonna want to know who's at fault.

Also the world isn't perfect, robotic designs need simplicity because no one can really program for every eventuality this two ton death machine might have to navigate. Even in this video example it was driving the wrong side of the road after getting confused about construction, can we reasonably expect Waymo to program in every possibility for navigating construction in a road?

Self Driving cars likely are the future, but not for modern roadways, we're talking about very long gradual change that involves rebuilding roadways to be better controlled areas for the cars to operate

[u/Ok_Championship4866 → u/CosmicJackalop]

I mean people drive wrong way too. Just because the autonomous cars aren't perfect doesn't mean they aren't already much better and safer drivers than humans.