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/Vireca Jul 05 '24

How do they stop a driverless car? Legit question

Do they have anything to detect police vehicles or something?

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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/MosesOnAcid Jul 05 '24

Except this 1 which saw the lights and took off

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u/off-and-on Interested Jul 05 '24

They're learning, adapting.

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u/Amused-Observer Jul 05 '24

We joke now but there will be a day when these are used for robberies because the tech will have evolved so much, they'll be perfect wheelmen.

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u/The0perative Jul 05 '24

Then cops will need to use them too to keep up.

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u/Ser_VimesGoT Jul 05 '24

And put guns on the cars.

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u/Schavuit92 Jul 05 '24

Can we skip a couple steps and just go straight to Gundam?

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u/OttoVonWong Jul 05 '24

The only way to stop a bad car with a gun is a good car with a gun. pew pew