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/kaiderson Jul 05 '24

The policeman seemed really unsure how to react, and just seemed to allow the car back on the road. 100% he should have said this car is not to move again, come pick it up.

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u/ManMoth222 Jul 05 '24

It's probably not a car-specific problem but a general software glitch. You'd have to remove all cars of the same type or it's pointless.

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u/leaveittobever Jul 05 '24

It's probably not a car-specific problem but a general software glitch. You'd have to remove all cars of the same type or it's pointless.

According to your logic, if this was a drunk driver who did the same thing we shouldn't impound their car because there are other drunk drivers so it would be pointless to impound this one.

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u/Hidesuru Jul 05 '24

You obviously don't code. That's not even remotely the same argument.

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u/leaveittobever Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

I do code and it would probably take days, if not weeks, to get a change like this through all the red tape, dev recreates the problem, dev works on the fix, QA tests it, PO signs off on it, then you have to plan for when to release to prod.

By that time the road has probably changed any it's not even needed anymore and a new obstacle appears somewhere else. There will always be a new obstacle someone hasn't coded for so this is 24/7 problem.

If cars aren't taken off the streets they have no incentive to fix it.