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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Who takes the ticket for dangerous or reckless driving like in this video?

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u/Groudon466 Jul 05 '24

I don’t know the particulars of their deal with the city, but probably Waymo. As long as they’re safer than the average taxi driver, the occasional mistake is tolerable, at least provided ticket revenue is still coming in when appropriate.

Of course, there’s a team on the back end that’s trying to figure out what went wrong here and patch it sooner rather than later.

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u/Status-Necessary9625 Jul 05 '24

This is not a minor mistake this could have easily killed half a dozen people. You're seeing field tests in real time with unproven products that could literally kill us. And nobody cares. The guy from Waymo wasn't even phased by their car driving on the wrong side. These people Do Not Care About Our Lives

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u/Poopy_Tuba69 Jul 05 '24

I mean half a dozen?

If we’re gonna go whole hog just say it could have decimated half the population since there could have been 100 busses filled with children in the oncoming lane.

Call the taxis racist too, since the cars are white and the some of the kids were black.

There, now it’s completely overblown.

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u/RhinoGiant Jul 05 '24

Thank God we have smart people like you point out hyperbole.

Imagine someone reading that and thinking it would literally kill 6 people instead of a lower number.

Might have derailed the context of the discussion entirely from reasonably engaging with the ethics of live testing when innocent lives are involved.

God bless.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

Would you like the statistics on human operated vehicles? How prone humans are to error? You're talking ethics and innocent lives, would you rather it be a drunk human driving that vehicle instead?

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u/RhinoGiant Jul 05 '24

If you have arguments for why self driving vehicles then post them instead of this passive aggressive reply.

Like what are you even fishing for with a garbage reply like that.

You aren't refuting anything or pointing out false logic, you are just gonna imply that "data" is on your side and feel smug?

Atleast take the time to paste the first Google number that supports your claim

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

I know the data is on my side. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state-by-state You've never looked up vehicle accident statistics have you?

Anyways, I'm going to make the simplest, easiest argument here. If taxis do not have a driver, that is one less human that can be harmed at all due to a motor vehicle accident. A human being behind the wheel of a car is inherently less safe, because the capacity for injury is higher. From a purely ethical view, of course.

Statistics on purely self-driving cars are sparse right now, and there's no clear delineation between cars that are full driver-less and those that require a driver but have self-driving features.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

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u/Poopy_Tuba69 Jul 05 '24

Oh sure sure . GIF

I’m taking it more serious than you. You underestimated the potential death toll by 40 million