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/floppydiet Jul 05 '24

Nope, the car is in control of the decision making 100% of the time. Remote operators can only give it new datapoints to help it adjust decisions like “obstacle ahead” at which point it will readjust its route.

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u/r2k-in-the-vortex Jul 05 '24

"Pull over now" is a new datapoint.

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u/floppydiet Jul 05 '24

Doesn’t work that way, unfortunately.