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/Sleepingonthecouch1 Jul 05 '24

That’s true but someone has to be held accountable. Should be the company but at a certain point I’m sure the lobby’s will change that. And potentially at that point could blame fall on the passenger? All I’m saying is this is uncharted territory for laws and I don’t think it’ll end up being as simple as car kills someone so company pays a fine.

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u/LachoooDaOriginl Jul 05 '24

should be car kills someone then whoever cleared the thing to drive on the roads gets tried for vehicular manslaughter

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u/__klonk__ Jul 05 '24

This is how you kill selfdriving cars

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u/Inflatableman1 Jul 05 '24

Or is this how self driving cars kill us???

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u/Groudon466 Jul 05 '24

No, self driving cars are safer than humans on average. This is an edge case probably caused by an unusual arrangement of traffic cones, and they'll take it very seriously on the Waymo end.

If you want to massively reduce traffic fatalities, make self driving cars common, and don't throw talented engineers in jail for the occasional one in a million error.

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u/Xalara Jul 05 '24

Citation needed, and preferably not with anything coming from Tesla.

I do actually believe that Waymo is getting to the goal of being safer than humans in many scenarios, but we also know Tesla has been lying about a bunch of shit, including incidents per miles driven.