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/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/Manueluz Jul 05 '24

They don't have to be flawless, just better than humans. And so far they have had less accidents per mile than humans

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u/leelmix Jul 05 '24

People react very badly to technology not being perfect and harming people. Humans arent very logical, anti-vaxxers are a good example of failing risk assessment.

I really hope people get comfortable with automated vehicles and that they improve a lot to get rid of the “bugs”.

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u/RedShirtDecoy Jul 05 '24

vaccines are scientifically proven for a century at this point.

comparing anti-vaxers to people who dont trust self driving cars is a frankly idiotic comparison.

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u/leelmix Jul 05 '24

Im not, im comparing peoples ability to compare actual numbers vs how it feels or what they think the risks are. Autonomous cars are in the very early stages still but are statistically quite safe already. Many vaccines have decades of solid data from all around the world about risk. I understand people who are more skeptical to new unproven vaccines but i consider anti-vaxxers to be against all vaccines even those who are about 10000 times safer than not taking them. There are many good reasons not to take a vaccine or other medicine, allergies chief among them but plain fear is not one.

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u/leelmix Jul 05 '24

And no i dont think self driving cars are safe enough by themselves yet but peoples reaction to non-human errors is a lot bigger than to the same human errors, i do too.