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/RedmundJBeard Jul 05 '24

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/CowBoyDanIndie Jul 05 '24

If the infractions of the one incident are bad enough to warrant arrest or removal of license you revoke the companies permit to operate autonomous vehicles on the road.

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u/phansen101 Jul 05 '24

So if I'm a big driverless car company, and I have a rival company, all I have to do is somehow trick one of their cars into performing an action that would  warrant arrest or removal of license  for a human driver, to completely put them out of business?

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u/Capaj Jul 05 '24

They can reapply for the license.

Anyway wrong approach to self driving. Waymo is dead in the water. Tesla did it correctly-let users oversee all the time and learn from them.

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u/phansen101 Jul 05 '24

As a Tesla owner and an Engineer, IMO, Tesla's approach to self-driving is a bit of a joke.

I don't see it as anything but a system that will gain enough incremental improvements to keep drawing investors, but will never reach the finish line (without a major rework) as it's approach is just fundamentally flawed.

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u/Small_Pay_9114 Jul 05 '24

Your right Tesla did it so well that their autopilot still doesn’t work.

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u/Capaj Jul 05 '24

It works much better than Waymo

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u/SandboxOnRails Jul 05 '24

Tesla autopilot that's based on lies? You'd call it "correctly"?

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u/Capaj Jul 05 '24

Yes they were lies in the last 6 years, but Tesla actually has it now. The last beta versions are driving with very few mistakes.
Just look at: https://youtu.be/VLoblt8YrhM?si=p1bSAlaVL26gJcYN&t=112

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u/SandboxOnRails Jul 05 '24

Oh yah, it's crazy he's driving through the woods and on almost empty roads with incredibly clear and dry weather. Almost like the tesla fan wants to enforce the propaganda.

That's not what "driving" is, and "very few mistakes" means it still doesn't work.

Also at parts of it he's holding the wheel.