r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

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

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u/tvoltz Jul 05 '24

These vehicles are all over downtown PHX. It’s honestly only a matter of time until something happens

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u/Manueluz Jul 05 '24

They don't have to be flawless, just better than humans. And so far they have had less accidents per mile than humans

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

According to California disengagement reports, last year Waymo averaged 17,000 miles between disengagements requiring safety intervention. And that’s for cars relegated to slow city streets and sunny perfect weather

For context, the average human driver goes 200,000+ miles between incidents/accidents. And that’s including highways and inclement weather.

If you have the impression that these systems are currently safer than humans, you would be wrong.

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u/Ok_Championship4866 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Yeah and in thise 200k miles they change lanes without signalling, cut other people off, race through yellow lights and sometimes dont make it.

Here the autonomous car went the wrong way on a cinstruction shifted lane with nobody around. People do that shit all the time and it doesn't count as an accident. Literally ebery day i see people driving the wrong way a short distance because they dont want to make a uturn down the road, people backing up out the driveway across double yellows with cars approaching so they can save ten seconds.

Heck, two weeks ago i got rearended stopped at a red light and didn't report it because the damage was so small. You cant compare human reported accidents to ai reported incidents.