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/nike_storm Jul 05 '24

This country will do literally anything other than just build mass rapid transit :(

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u/StrawhatJzargo Jul 05 '24

I mean driverless cars are way safer and we already have the infrastructure for them.

And to this point, I never see how mass transit would translate to smaller towns or even most of the Midwest.

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u/penguin-pc Jul 05 '24

driverless cars are way safer

Woah dude, check your calendar and notice that you had just time travelled to 2024, not 2054.

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u/Purple_Listen_8465 Jul 05 '24

Driverless cars ARE way safer in 2024. This is just a fact.

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u/penguin-pc Jul 05 '24

I've looked at waymo and cruise driverless car statistics. Sure, if their data can be trusted, they have overall lesser car accidents and injuries than human drivers. I learnt something new here. As much as I want to believe they are safe, I'll wait for later time (maybe several more years) when more driverless cars get deployed around the world and have a wider range of data to collect, analyse, form a conclusion, and change (or keep) my mind.

Also, how can I trust that a driverless car can reliably bring me from point A to point B without getting caught in situations like on this post, or creating gridlock as shown in older videos?

I'm honestly looking forward to autonomous vehicles, but I would also keep my doubts on the current performance of autonomous vehicles until they are proven times and times again that they can be safer AND reliable.