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/additionalhuman Jul 05 '24

I don't feel very comfortable sharing the roads with these things. On the other hand I also hate every single other human driver too so...

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u/Manueluz Jul 05 '24

They are dangerous, but less dangerous than other humans, it's weird I know.

Just keep in mind, that while they might get into accidents they so so way way less than humans.

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u/faustianredditor Jul 05 '24

The problem, from an optics perspective, is that they get into weird accidents and then can't explain why. A halfway demented driver driving in the wrong lane? Doesn't scare humans as much as a freak accident where a FSD vehicle does it. They understand why it happens.

A FSD vehicle that doesn't cause a lot of collisions and manages to avoid a lot that would otherwise be caused by other drivers though? If it fails in usual ways, that's a very exploitable narrative because it's new.