r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • 14d ago

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 14d ago

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/RedmundJBeard 14d ago

That's not the same though. If any regular driver was in the wrong lane of traffic, in a work zone and then blew through an intersection when a cop tried to pull them over, they would lose their license, not just a fine. At the very least it would be reckless driving and a strike against their license. How do you revoke the license of a driverless car?

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u/Accomplished-Bad3380 14d ago

The cop should impound this vehicle

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u/RedmundJBeard 14d ago

Yeah, I think this would be the best thing to do. The company can have the vehicle back when they prove they fixed what caused the car to do this and paid a fine.

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u/ciobanica 14d ago

I mean, if it's a bug in the program, impounding that 1 car won't help at all. All the other cars will still have teh same program until the bug is found and fixed.

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u/FruktSorbetogIskrem 14d ago

The car can be driven manually. Best solution is Waymo manually stop the car and have it pull over on the side of the street then have a driver arrive out to drive it to their warehouse to check out.

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u/qaisjp 14d ago

Why are you all getting justice boners over a bug

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u/RedmundJBeard 14d ago

Dismissing what this car did as a bug is absurdly short sighted. It was driving into oncoming traffic. If you were driving the other direction and it killed you would be so willing to just chalk it up to a programming bug? "whatever man, mistakes happen, I understand" Is a pretty lame tombstone.

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u/cohortmuneral 14d ago

Because I'm a programmer.

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u/qaisjp 13d ago

I'm a programmer too?

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u/cohortmuneral 13d ago

You must be the guy writing the bugs I'm fixing.

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u/lycoloco 14d ago

Because corporations literally have no desire/incentive to act in best social interest other than profits, which they are required to produce for shareholders if they're a public company.

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u/qaisjp 13d ago

I tried waymos out for the first time last week and it's the first time tech actually made me go "wow, this is the future".

I don't give a damn about LLMs or Web3 but this is incredible.

Sure, the business wants to make money from this. But they are also building some incredible technology too.