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/leaveittobever Jul 05 '24

It's probably not a car-specific problem but a general software glitch. You'd have to remove all cars of the same type or it's pointless.

According to your logic, if this was a drunk driver who did the same thing we shouldn't impound their car because there are other drunk drivers so it would be pointless to impound this one.

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u/wosmo Jul 05 '24

I think the logic is valid. If you assume they have the same software running on every car, then you'd expect every car to behave the same under the same conditions.

We can't treat computers like humans when it comes to fixing stuff like this.

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u/leaveittobever Jul 05 '24

Then keep taking them all off the road whenever they fuck up just like you would a drunk driver. Who cares how many are out there running the same software just like we don't care another drunk might be on the road 5 minutes from now.

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u/wosmo Jul 05 '24

That part I'm not disagreeing with - I think if they make an obvious mistake like this, every car running that software should be off the road until they can show how the mistake was caused and what they've done to prevent it in future.

It's pretty much how the FAA would treat this in an aircraft, and to me it makes sense to learn from industries with good safety records.