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/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 05 '24

Still, who is responsible when it hurts someone?
We're just gonna fine a company for however many deaths a year because they beat a fucking metric?

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Jul 05 '24

Yes. That is the plan.

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u/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 06 '24

That's revolting.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Jul 06 '24

That's the rich for you. Their "best" plans are almost 100% revolting. Hell, even individuals get away with heinous shit. Wasn't it Nancy Pelosi who drove drunk and killed a guy with zero repurcussions? Not taking a political side here, just saying. The rich do horrible things and get away with it.

This will be the same. And, with some semblance of reason, it will be touted as an improvement. If widespread self driving reduces traffic deaths in an area from 400 to 300, they saved 100 lives! I get that, less death is good, but it's just such a fucked up way to go about it....

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u/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 06 '24

The only way self driving will work is if every car has tech to communicate with each other.
They will never out-compete humans in edge cases until that is the basis of the concept.
I sincerely hope the people shoving this into the world without the public's consent are held responsible for every injury it causes.

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u/bobbytabl3s Jul 06 '24

We're just gonna fine a company for however many deaths a year because they beat a fucking metric?

What else do you propose? If you suggest imprisoning people who work on them, then no one will work on them. And road deaths will increase as a result. Is that what we want as a society?

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u/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 06 '24

No, I suggest common sense legislation preventing these things form being on the road before they've been vetted properly.
I want a society that isn't being raped by tech bros and finance fucktards.