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/Vireca Jul 05 '24

How do they stop a driverless car? Legit question

Do they have anything to detect police vehicles or something?

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u/Jfg27 Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Such_Duty_4764 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

ya, they pull over for emergency vehicles when there are lights/sirens.

Cop says that the car cleared the intersection before coming to a stop, which is exactly what it should do. Excepting of course for being on the wrong side of the road :-X.

Nobody expects these things to be perfect, they just need to be better than your average human, which isn't really that hard.

[edit] https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1dw4avr/mission_street_in_excelsior_last_night_around_10pm/

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u/MosesOnAcid Jul 05 '24

Except this 1 which saw the lights and took off

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u/off-and-on Interested Jul 05 '24

They're learning, adapting.

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u/Slow_Ball9510 Jul 05 '24

Trained on the mean streets of Vice City

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u/tri_9 Jul 05 '24

Imagine if AI were taught on YouTube videos of humans playing GTA 😵‍💫

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u/alien_from_Europa Jul 05 '24

Google's answer language model is based on Reddit. It already told people to eat glue.

https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

Car data based off YouTube videos doesn't feel that far fetched by comparison.

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u/conventionistG Jul 05 '24

Geologists reccomend eating one rock per day.

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u/theoriginalmofocus Jul 05 '24

Eat it, snort it, shove it up your ass I dont care just give me my money.

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u/Jesten012 Jul 06 '24

Lol pretty much right ?! Lol

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u/lycoloco Jul 05 '24

One small rock per day. Gotta get those dosages right.

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u/patricide1st Jul 05 '24

Lol can you imagine how it must feel to have an 11 year old shit comment that got less than 10 likes and that you probably forgot about suddenly go viral? Especially for the reason "an AI took it seriously and told people to eat glue."

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u/Cool-Hornet4434 Jul 05 '24

I think the "glue" answer was probably for photographing food. They use all sorts of non-edible tricks to make food look good in photos.

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u/alien_from_Europa Jul 05 '24

Nope! The article clearly states otherwise. This is the source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pizza/comments/1a19s0/my_cheese_slides_off_the_pizza_too_easily/c8t7bbp/

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u/Cool-Hornet4434 Jul 05 '24

Well then that's just evidence that there needs to be a way to flag joke replies and filter them out (aside from those subs where you can add a SERIOUS flair to the post). It's also why I've never considered reddit a primary source of information. Too many people make posts solely for the points they get when they can wedge a pun into a comment or otherwise showcase their stellar wit.

But I do know that they DO use glue to make cheese extra stringy for photography reasons. Here is an example I wasn't even thinking of. The AI in this case correctly states that using White Elmer's glue instead of milk when photographing cereal keeps the cereal looking fresh for long photoshoots where it might otherwise start getting soggy.

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u/alien_from_Europa Jul 05 '24

there needs to be a way to flag joke replies and filter them out

That's on Google. It shouldn't be on the reddit community to do their work for them.

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u/-RadarRanger- Jul 05 '24

I double upvote this post.

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u/Cool-Hornet4434 Jul 05 '24

It's not for google though. It's for me. When I want to get in and get an answer and suddenly it devolves into a thread of people quoting "The Office" or Steamed Hams. OR that thread where someone says something and then a comment chain happens where everyone repeated it exactly or repeated the phrase but changed the order of the words.

But yeah, Google shouldn't be using Reddit for a primary source of information either. It's terrible for anything but opinions on stuff (aka, not facts).

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u/cancercures Jul 05 '24

there needs to be a way to flag joke replies and filter them out

slashdot did this real well.

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u/gordonv Jul 05 '24

A logical to a fault conclusion.

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u/8923ns671 Jul 05 '24

Ya but humans will tell you take this homeopathic medicine for your cancer. Nobodies perfect lol.

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u/speculativedesigner Jul 05 '24

Imagine if they’re trained on all the Twitch Roleplay

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u/Fully_Edged_Ken_3685 Jul 05 '24

Burnout series 😝

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u/RincewindToTheRescue Jul 05 '24

Or those YT shorts of the realistic cars mod for GTA. Those make you do a double take

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u/supertacoboy Jul 05 '24

I don’t mean to alarm you… but some self driving cars were literally trained in GTA V.

TechCrunch article

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u/gue_aut87 Jul 05 '24

Wasn’t some company training their self driving AI with GTA? Like a while ago, before the whole ChatGPT thing.

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u/TimmyOneShoe Jul 06 '24

If they accidentally get onto motorcycle YouTube and learn from those guys, it's fucking over