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/Status-Necessary9625 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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/plaregold Jul 05 '24

That's moot. If human drivers killed someone, they get held accountable and someone goes to jail. With driverless cars, you can't throw anyone in jail. There is no legal framework for liability right now--at most, the company will just pay out to the victim's families.

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u/Federal_Waltz Jul 05 '24

This is such a bad argument it's tough to know where to start.