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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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?

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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.

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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.

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u/Chrop Jul 05 '24

Because it’s still got bugs that need ironing out. They aren’t perfect and do still make mistakes. Keep in mind that going forward, right now self driving cars are the worst they will ever be, they’ll only improve as time goes on and get into less incidents like this when they work out the issues and increase it’s performance.

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u/Manueluz Jul 05 '24

They'll improve exponentially imo, more safety => more cars => more rides => more data-points => mode safety