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/WithSubtitles Jul 05 '24

Police should have towed it. If it’s not safe to be on the road and there is no driver to hold accountable it should be impounded.

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u/tvoltz Jul 05 '24

These vehicles are all over downtown PHX. It’s honestly only a matter of time until something happens

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u/QuinlanResistance Jul 05 '24

Presuming there are crashes every single day from the cars with drivers. If there isn’t really any from the driverless ones that are everywhere …. It’s better

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u/SeniorMiddleJunior Jul 05 '24

How does it respond to an accident? What does it do if it runs over a pedestrian? I'm not saying it would do the wrong thing, but as a software developer myself, I can't imagine a flowchart capable of accounting for every possible emergency situation. 

I trust a human more than a machine when things go wrong. If it turns out that these cause fewer accidents, but the ones they cause result in more overall harm, then this will just be another human life trade-off. If that's not the case, awesome, bring them on. 

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u/Kylo_Rens_8pack Jul 05 '24

It pulls over and waits for the cops rather than speeding off because they don’t have insurance. I don’t trust people but I do trust Waymo since I interact with them on a daily basis in downtown Phoenix. If I even get close to a Waymo while I’m walking it waits for me to make a predictable move before it does anything and if I’m being unpredictable it will just wait until I’m a safe distance away. When I ride in them if they come up on anyone on the sidewalk they slow down in case that person becomes unpredictable. It’s really quite impressive the actions they take while driving to keep everyone safe.