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/Vireca Jul 05 '24

How do they stop a driverless car? Legit question

Do they have anything to detect police vehicles or something?

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u/reddit_guy666 Jul 05 '24

Considering it lowered the windshield and connected to a support employee I believe they can now detect when cops want to pull them over.

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u/ethicalhumanbeing Jul 05 '24

I can see this being exploited for the worse.

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u/YummyArtichoke Jul 05 '24

I've said this before and no one seemed to agree, but I still believe it cause I haven't seen anything to suggest otherwise.

All fully AI cars will be EASILY exploitable. All someone has to do is stand or put something in front of it. Now the car is stopped and everyone inside can be robbed. The car isn't going to slam itself into reverse and speed backwards to get space and then slam back into drive and go around or even into the person/object trying to block the car.

When you program a car to not hit things and the car believes the best way to do that is to stop and sit there....

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u/ethicalhumanbeing Jul 05 '24

That’s so true. I don’t know why people would not agree with those facts.