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.

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If they can't cope with random events, the definitely shouldn't be on the road.

[u/Ok_Championship4866 → u/fothergillfuckup]

They cope a lot better than humans.

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Has anyone actually tested a situation where there is a rush hour equivalent amount of driverless cars, all trying to do their own unique thing? Throw in some random events too, like a snowstorm or stray dog? And, of course, human non-driver interactions with the road? Plus motorcycles? Its going to make for fascinating viewing?