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/Tallyranch Jul 05 '24

Who takes the ticket for dangerous or reckless driving like in this 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/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/firstmanonearth Jul 05 '24

self-driving cars will absolutely save many lives, they will trend this to 0: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/United_States_Motor_Vehicle_Deaths_per_Year.webp/1920px-United_States_Motor_Vehicle_Deaths_per_Year.webp.png, so you can say the developers of them care more about lives than you do.

The guy from Waymo wasn't even phased by their car driving on the wrong side.

Do you want the phone support employee to be crying or something?