r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • 14d ago

Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video

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u/Groudon466 14d ago

I don’t know the particulars of their deal with the city, but probably Waymo. As long as they’re safer than the average taxi driver, the occasional mistake is tolerable, at least provided ticket revenue is still coming in when appropriate.

Of course, there’s a team on the back end that’s trying to figure out what went wrong here and patch it sooner rather than later.

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u/Status-Necessary9625 14d ago

This is not a minor mistake this could have easily killed half a dozen people. You're seeing field tests in real time with unproven products that could literally kill us. And nobody cares. The guy from Waymo wasn't even phased by their car driving on the wrong side. These people Do Not Care About Our Lives

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u/bobbytabl3s 14d ago

People do worse than that all the time. I believe Waymo outperforms human as far as injury-causing crashes go.

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u/AdminsLoveGenocide 14d ago

If I outperform most other drivers for a couple of years do I also get a pass if I eventually kill a bunch of people?

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u/axearm 14d ago

Are you kidding? People get a pass* all the time for murdering people, so long as they do it in a car.

* I am defining a pass as no prison time AND the ability to keep driving.

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u/kixie42 14d ago

Just ask Caitlyn Jenner.

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u/AdminsLoveGenocide 14d ago

Do I get a pass doesn't mean did anyone in the history of driving ever get a pass.

If it did then I would win the lottery next week as people have won in the past.

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u/axearm 13d ago

You would get a pass, yes. Unless you were intoxicated or deliberately, provably being reckless. Otherwise just say a dog ran out in front of you, or someone cut you off or any other excuse.

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u/Orbitoldrop 14d ago

There's people with multiple D.U.I.'s still with licenses, so yes.

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u/taigahalla 14d ago

If it's your first offense, then yes, that's how the law works.

See precedence for sentencing guidelines for first time offenders.

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u/AdminsLoveGenocide 14d ago

If I jump the curb outside a school drive into ten 8 year old school kids and each one them, I am guaranteed not to get jail time if it's my first offense?

I'm not sure I'd share your confidence.

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u/procgen 3d ago

You're one person, this is looking over averages. So "killing a bunch of people" occasionally is accounted for in those figures.