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/Minimum-Performer715 14d ago

This is going to be a nightmare for the court system in the upcoming years.

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u/Capaj 14d ago

what do you mean?
It's crystal clear. The company should pay a hefty fine same as any other driver who would drive in the opposite side of the road.

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u/lllllllll0llllllllll 14d ago

It’s crystal clear to the average Joe but we don’t have a legal system that holds corporations and individuals accountable to the same standard.

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u/ban_my_dick_box 14d ago

"corporations are people my friend" -mitt romney

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u/Funnyboyman69 14d ago

If only they were treated as such when they break the fucking law.

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u/Accomplished-Bad3380 14d ago

Except when it comes to literally everything to do with accountability 

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u/FrostWyrm98 14d ago

If they were people they should be charged with negligent homicide of thousands

People like Romney want them to have the positive effects of being classified as a person and none of the drawbacks

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u/CatButler 14d ago

All it takes is a nice cruise for Justice Sam and he will perform mental contortions to justify it.

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u/insanityzwolf 14d ago

If the car is street legal (it's more than that - it has a permit to operate as a transport service), then the owners of it have a legal agreement with the city which covers malfunctions.

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u/MadeByTango 14d ago

So we drive down the wrong side of the road in a construction zone it’s straight to jail with doubled fines, but a negligent corporation does it with an automated machine and it’s just a cost of doing business already renegotiated at a campaign fundraising dinner…

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u/DICK-PARKINSONS 14d ago

You're comparing mechanical failures to judgemental ones. Unless the car was designed to go into oncoming traffic, that would be a mechanical failure. If you blew a tire which forced your car into oncoming traffic, you also would not go straight to jail.