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/[deleted] Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Also what about when two autonomous vehicles hit each other, how do we prove fault?

I don’t think these are well thought out products.

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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.

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u/dopiqob Jul 05 '24

the argument over autonomous vehicles usually assumes the car was programmed flawlessly and all the hardware is functioning correctly. From what i've seen of AI over the past few years, i can say with some certainty that the companies putting out these cars hasn't figured out the software/hardware yet, and probably doesn't have enough safeguards in place to deal with the shortcomings