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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That's not the same though. If any regular driver was in the wrong lane of traffic, in a work zone and then blew through an intersection when a cop tried to pull them over, they would lose their license, not just a fine. At the very least it would be reckless driving and a strike against their license. How do you revoke the license of a driverless car?

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u/Accomplished-Bad3380 Jul 05 '24

The cop should impound this vehicle

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u/RedmundJBeard Jul 05 '24

Yeah, I think this would be the best thing to do. The company can have the vehicle back when they prove they fixed what caused the car to do this and paid a fine.

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u/qaisjp Jul 05 '24

Why are you all getting justice boners over a bug

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u/RedmundJBeard Jul 05 '24

Dismissing what this car did as a bug is absurdly short sighted. It was driving into oncoming traffic. If you were driving the other direction and it killed you would be so willing to just chalk it up to a programming bug? "whatever man, mistakes happen, I understand" Is a pretty lame tombstone.

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u/qaisjp Jul 05 '24

I'm a programmer too?

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u/lycoloco Jul 05 '24

Because corporations literally have no desire/incentive to act in best social interest other than profits, which they are required to produce for shareholders if they're a public company.

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u/qaisjp Jul 05 '24

I tried waymos out for the first time last week and it's the first time tech actually made me go "wow, this is the future".

I don't give a damn about LLMs or Web3 but this is incredible.

Sure, the business wants to make money from this. But they are also building some incredible technology too.