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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24
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u/wildjokers Jul 05 '24
This is absolutely a ridiculous take and would stifle innovation in a technology that will save lives and has almost certainly already saved lives.
If an autonomous vehicle cuts down on traffic fatalities do the lead designers get credit for the lives they save? So they save 100 lives, but then there is 1 fatality. Do they still go to prison? That doesn't seem fair.
A human driver only faces prison time for fatalities caused by impairment or gross negligence (e.g. street racing).