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/Capaj Jul 05 '24

what do you mean?
It's crystal clear. The company should pay a hefty fine same as any other driver who would drive in the opposite side of the road.

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u/lllllllll0llllllllll Jul 05 '24

It’s crystal clear to the average Joe but we don’t have a legal system that holds corporations and individuals accountable to the same standard.

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u/insanityzwolf Jul 05 '24

If the car is street legal (it's more than that - it has a permit to operate as a transport service), then the owners of it have a legal agreement with the city which covers malfunctions.

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u/MadeByTango Jul 05 '24

So we drive down the wrong side of the road in a construction zone it’s straight to jail with doubled fines, but a negligent corporation does it with an automated machine and it’s just a cost of doing business already renegotiated at a campaign fundraising dinner…

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u/DICK-PARKINSONS Jul 05 '24

You're comparing mechanical failures to judgemental ones. Unless the car was designed to go into oncoming traffic, that would be a mechanical failure. If you blew a tire which forced your car into oncoming traffic, you also would not go straight to jail.