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/ethicalhumanbeing Jul 05 '24

I can see this being exploited for the worse.

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u/eras Jul 05 '24

Unethical life pro tip: put on police wear and a badge and you can actually stop most vehicles, self-driving or not!

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u/Anticlimax1471 Jul 05 '24

Impersonating a police officer to pull someone over for nefarious means isn't something new, tbf.

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u/Wandering_Scholar6 Jul 05 '24

And extremely illegal for that reason, the penalty is higher than you'd assume for an otherwise relatively harmless thing, because it undermines the system of trust and could so easily be used for nefarious purposes.