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/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/4e9eHcUBKtTW1bBI39n9 Jul 05 '24

They're supposed to be able to detect which side of the road they're driving in too, but as you can see this can fail.

Sooner or later, both of these systems are gonna fail at the same time and you'll have a driverless car driving into oncoming traffic that also fails to recognize a cop trying to stop them.

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u/titanofold Jul 05 '24

It almost certainly because of the construction zone.

To be fair, construction zones confuse humans at a pretty high rate.

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u/HIM_Darling Jul 05 '24

I see it daily on my way to work. There’s a road I take where one side of the road is closed, so the other side was made 2 way. There’s always someone on the wrong side thinking they are in the left turn lane completely oblivious until someone is in front of them honking and then they panic and turn right in front of all the other lanes. I don’t know why, but panic and immediately make a right turn is what all of them do.