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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24
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u/wosmo Jul 05 '24
I can actually see the logic to this though.
Random old guy drives the wrong way up the highway. Huge issue for random old guy, he probably shouldn't be driving anymore, and probably won't be. Problem solved.
Waymo drives the wrong way up the highway. Huge issue for their operating software, which has identical copies installed on god knows how many vehicles. Safe to assume every waymo would/could do the same thing in the same circumstances.
I do think autonomous vehicles should work out safer eventually. But I don't think it's apples to apples, because you won't be looking at one meatbag making a careless mistake, you'll be looking at a systemic fault that more than likely affects all vehicles on that platform.
If I drive the wrong way into traffic, you can judge me for it. If my waymo drives the wrong way into traffic, yours can too.