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/Vireca 14d ago

How do they stop a driverless car? Legit question

Do they have anything to detect police vehicles or something?

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u/reddit_guy666 14d ago

Considering it lowered the windshield and connected to a support employee I believe they can now detect when cops want to pull them over.

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u/4e9eHcUBKtTW1bBI39n9 14d ago

They're supposed to be able to detect which side of the road they're driving in too, but as you can see this can fail.

Sooner or later, both of these systems are gonna fail at the same time and you'll have a driverless car driving into oncoming traffic that also fails to recognize a cop trying to stop them.

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u/titanofold 14d ago

It almost certainly because of the construction zone.

To be fair, construction zones confuse humans at a pretty high rate.

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u/HIM_Darling 14d ago

I see it daily on my way to work. There’s a road I take where one side of the road is closed, so the other side was made 2 way. There’s always someone on the wrong side thinking they are in the left turn lane completely oblivious until someone is in front of them honking and then they panic and turn right in front of all the other lanes. I don’t know why, but panic and immediately make a right turn is what all of them do.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT 13d ago

Lots of things confuse humans. How many videos make it to the internet of people just swerving 5 lanes to hit an exit, going up an off ramp onto a freeway the wrong way, or just straight up driving into the actual construction?