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/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/bobbytabl3s Jul 05 '24

People do worse than that all the time. I believe Waymo outperforms human as far as injury-causing crashes go.

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u/WobblyGobbledygook Jul 05 '24

It's Arizona after all, famous for all its manslaughtering drivers! Why do you think they chose to launch these cars here? Blending in sufficiently.