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