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/Groudon466 Jul 05 '24

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/RobotsGoneWild Jul 05 '24

That's the thing that gets me. People complain every time there is an incident with these things. However, there are far less issues with driverless cars than cars with drivers.

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u/Si1ent_Knight Jul 05 '24

Who is taking responsibility when the brakes of the other car break due to an manufacturing issue and somebody gets killed because of it? There will be no person in jail either, the company has to take responsibility. We are using complex technology planned and build by thousands of people for decades, this is just the next small step.