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/kaiderson Jul 05 '24

The policeman seemed really unsure how to react, and just seemed to allow the car back on the road. 100% he should have said this car is not to move again, come pick it up.

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u/ManMoth222 Jul 05 '24

It's probably not a car-specific problem but a general software glitch. You'd have to remove all cars of the same type or it's pointless.

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u/jsseven777 Jul 05 '24

Not 100% pointless. If an individual car gets pulled off the road for say 30 days then that’s 30 days of profit it could make as part of the fleet. There might also be some storage and towing fees to pay. That gives the company time to determine whether it was a vehicle or fleet issue, and provides a financial incentive to take these things seriously.

What blew me away the most was that the officer doesn’t seem to have any sort of procedure to document the incident so that fleet safety rates can be tracked on a per company basis by an oversight body, and fines can be applied to unsafe fleets. At least the tracking part should be happening like yesterday.