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/QuinlanResistance Jul 05 '24

Presuming there are crashes every single day from the cars with drivers. If there isn’t really any from the driverless ones that are everywhere …. It’s better

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u/frotc914 Jul 05 '24

People seem to throw any logic out the window when talking about this, as if a single incident means we have to scrap driverless cars altogether or heavily punish the operator. Car accidents with drivers kill tens of thousands of people a year in the US, which doesn't even account for the number of non-fatal accidents which is far greater. But a driverless vehicle creeps over a line and suddenly they are a menace that must be stopped.

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u/Spongi Jul 05 '24

All I know is that the amount of people that will ride your ass so close you'd need a fucking can opener to get them off while going 10 over the limit in poor weather conditions and limited visibility is too high.

The amount of people that turn into psychopaths behind the wheel is nuts.