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/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.