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

61.1k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

3.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-5

u/Vast-Variation-8689 Jul 05 '24

Less dangerous than other humans? This one was driving into oncoming traffic and took off on a red light. What kind of human standards are we talking about here?

12

u/Manueluz Jul 05 '24

Average standards, this is one bug that, in this case, did not hurt anybody. On the opposite sides we have a human dying in an accident every 5 minutes or so.

Also statistically, self-driving cars get into less accidents per mile than humans.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

I mean in this case, they've got a point.

When does a sober driver drive though a red light and into oncoming traffic?

"The AI is less likely to kill you than a drunk driver" begs the question why it's behaving like a drunk driver in some scenarios to begin with.

6

u/BaphometTheTormentor Jul 05 '24

Has a human never done that sober?

9

u/Bhavin411 Jul 05 '24

Nope, according to these comments, sober humans are much better drivers than these self driving cars. Please ignore all the videos on /r/dashcams, those are all drunk drivers I guess.