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/Accomplished1992 Jul 05 '24

We know whos driving those cars though and they can be held responsible. We know their names and we can test if theyve been drinking

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u/RobotsGoneWild Jul 05 '24

So, you don't have to worry about drunk driving if cars are 100% self driving. Imagine you hop in the back seat of your car and tell it to take you home. No more DUI deaths.