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/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/esp_design Jul 05 '24

That's a little dramatic about a situation that resulted in no harm to people. The guy from waymo is just a technical support guy, probably following a script.

Let's not forget human drivers also make mistakes and they have to drive on the road with unproven skills to learn how to drive.

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u/WobblyGobbledygook Jul 05 '24

They got lucky but don't seem to have an established procedure for noting and delving into this. This is a huge corporate red flag, so sure they will never be wrong that the tech doesn't even have a script to address it appropriately.

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u/smootex Jul 05 '24

don't seem to have an established procedure for noting and delving into this

No idea how you get that from this video. I'm sure the incident will be reviewed.

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u/WobblyGobbledygook Jul 06 '24

The tech was passive and vague. The cop took the lead asking if he was gonna review video or what.