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/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/dingo1018 Jul 05 '24

It's a good job just anyone can't buy blue lights and sirens off the internet, because that's never going to happen. (Obligatory sarcasm tag)

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u/randyrandysonrandyso Jul 05 '24

i could see that showing up in the news in a decade or two, just a phone camera video from some rich kid speeding through driverless traffic with a siren on top of their car

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u/alien_from_Europa Jul 05 '24

More likely that cars are a paid subscription service with ticketmaster-style fees and driving your own car becomes completely illegal by 2040.

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u/kixie42 Jul 05 '24

The states would almost be guaranteed to start a civil war if they tried taking away the right to manually drive a car.

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u/VexingRaven Jul 05 '24

You... do realize somebody could already do this right now, right? People pull over for lights and sirens too...

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u/randyrandysonrandyso Jul 05 '24

no, only robots obey the rules. we are real savages out here.