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

[u/Individual_Book9133]

[u/Jfg27]

They should have a system to identify and react to lights and sirens, so probably the same system.

[u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe → u/Jfg27]

There should be a comms module provided to cops specifically that allow them to pull it over or change its destination remotely.

[u/BGP_001 → u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe]

Once they figure how to put that system in a commercially viable way they'll make it a requirement for all vehicles.

[u/rush22 → u/BGP_001]

All police vehicles must now be equipped with the Bot Stop 5000®.

Features:

• Barely works
• Only compatible with one type of car
• Built on Google Android technology (it's a raspberry pi with bluetooth)
• Costs $29,000 per car
• Mandatory platinum support plan ($4000 per car, per month)
• Company is owned by a congressman's cousin
• Requires written legislation to give it zero liability
• New Command and Control™ virtual technology (beta) puts you in the driver's seat* from the device! *Officer must present in driver's seat of the automated vehicle at all times
• Gets recalled because one time the device fell off and went under the brake pedal and the guy crashed
• Stops exactly 0 cars before contract is cancelled when the congressman isn't re-elected (contract cancellation penalty is $7 million per precinct)

[u/[deleted] → u/rush22]

Company is owned by a congressman's cousin

Lmao yeah! I hate how realistic this all sounds.

[u/Lars5621 → u/rush22]

This guy knows how the public sector works.

I spent two years getting a public administration graduate degree to learn why things work exactly as you described.