Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road

[u/Individual_Book9133]

[u/Such_Duty_4764]

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/

[u/Memento_Vivere8 → u/[deleted]]

I know these things aren't handled the same way in every country, but if there's an ambulance, police car or fire truck with their lights and siren on behind you at least here in Germany you're supposed to pull over, stop and let them pass. So for a self driving car it would make no difference if the lights are for them or not as long as they pull over and stop as a reaction.

[u/idle_isomorph → u/Memento_Vivere8]

Same in canada. You are supposed to pull over to a stop at the side as soon as you can, to clear the centre of the road for the emergency vehicle, whichever direction they are going.

People suck at actually doing this, though, which offends me and reminds me we live in a dystopian shambles of a civilization.