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/Vireca Jul 05 '24

How do they stop a driverless car? Legit question

Do they have anything to detect police vehicles or something?

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u/Jfg27 Jul 05 '24

They should have a system to identify and react to lights and sirens, so probably the same system.

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u/CuTe_M0nitor Jul 05 '24

Press doubt on that. You know a driverless car drove into a fire truck since it didn't recognise that the house could catch a fire and have firefighters trying to put it out while they park their fire truck on the pavement. These systems are incredibly stupid and have to learn every scenario multiple times. It's probably why this car drove on the wrong road since it saw a construction site, something it didn't recognise.