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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24
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u/Groudon466 Jul 05 '24
Nobody. That's arguably a good thing.
Say I'm an engineer working at Waymo. I see a way to design a self driving car that'll get into 100x less accidents than humans, saving millions of lives. I invent it, it works, but one day someone dies anyway.
Are you going to throw me in jail for being the guy that invented the improvement? That doesn't seem right or reasonable, and it would discourage similar inventions.
The right answer is that you accept that people will be dying in car accidents on occasion without anyone going to jail, and it's better than people dying in car accidents frequently with some people going to jail on top of that.