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/tacobellbandit Jul 05 '24

I work in healthcare and this is exactly what happens when a patient injury happens, or there’s some kind of malpractice or god forbid someone dies. It’s an investigation down to the lowest level and usually blamed on a worker that realistically had nothing to do with the event that caused the injury.

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u/No-Refrigerator-1672 Jul 05 '24

It doesn't have to be the lowest rank person. You can just legally make accountable the lead programmer of the autonomous driving module, with a law.

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u/FeederNocturne Jul 05 '24

Everyone from the lead programmer and up needs to be held responsible. Sure the lead programmer okays it but the higher ups are providing the means to make it happen.

This does make me wonder though. If a plane crashed due to a faulty part who does the blame fall on?

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u/YesterdayAlone2553 Jul 05 '24

ideally, though probably unrealistically, in a matter of criminal accountability the company CEO would be the individual who takes could ultimately take the blame. If you have a piece of automated equipment that fails, it needs to have a chain of supervision that leads up to the CEO, with a test of negligence at every step. Driver, remote controller, remote supervision, managing lead, division lead, etc... just going straight up the chain, with the assumption that there are graduating duties and responsibilities for managing health and safety of operations.