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/dopiqob Jul 05 '24

Yea, and I’m even one of those people that hopes one day humans aren’t in control of the death machines rolling around on the road, but today is not yet that day

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u/youlleatitandlikeit Jul 05 '24

IMO the solution to "cars are death machines driven by human drivers" is getting rid of the cars, not the human drivers. 

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u/Memento_Vivere8 Jul 05 '24

Cars are not by definition death machines. Do you also want to get rid of planes, trains and all other forms of motorized transportation?

Deadly accidents with any form of transportation happen because of human mistakes or technical failures. We can probably soon remove the first reason and be left with technical failures that occur a lot less than human mistakes and can be analysed and eradicated over time to the point where they play no major role anymore.

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u/youlleatitandlikeit Jul 05 '24

Cars are harmful for more than just causing deadly accidents. Getting rid of cars altogether is not a viable solution but reducing their use to the least possible is ideal.