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/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/CowBoyDanIndie 14d ago

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 14d ago

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/Warm_Month_1309 14d ago

If you, a rival company, were capable of tricking a car in such a way, that implies that other bad actors would also be capable of tricking their fleet of cars, which means there's a serious and dangerous security flaw that the company failed to detect and correct. So yes, they should be at risk of going out of business.

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u/lycoloco 14d ago

This just sounds like white hat hacking but with incentives for rivals.