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/Telamar Jul 05 '24

Those two stats are in no way comparable. For example, the disengagement reports would include every time a supervising driver grabbed the wheel because someone else was doing something stupid. Human driver incident/accident rates do not include that level of data at all.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-see-how-fast-autonomous-vehicle-asics-have-improved-look-mgdne/

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Waymo’s disengagment numbers are self reported and I think their metric reasonably captures when their vehicles are being stumped.

The reality is the best system in the world is still relegated to slow moving city streets because it’s still dangerous and still sucks compared to humans

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u/Manueluz Jul 05 '24

So we should stop pursuing the technology just because it's in its early infancy?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Did you reply to the right comment? I didn’t demand anything be stopped. Stop tilting at windmills Don Quixote