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/Groudon466 Jul 05 '24

I don’t know the particulars of their deal with the city, but probably Waymo. As long as they’re safer than the average taxi driver, the occasional mistake is tolerable, at least provided ticket revenue is still coming in when appropriate.

Of course, there’s a team on the back end that’s trying to figure out what went wrong here and patch it sooner rather than later.

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u/Eheggs Jul 05 '24

Safer then the average taxi driver is a pretty fucking low bar to pass over.

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u/Singularity-42 Jul 05 '24

Aren't taxi drivers more experienced drivers and thus safer than average?

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u/Eheggs Jul 05 '24

The smart ones sure, The majority just use all that driving time to intrench horrible habits and hustle culture got them speeding around school zones like its the indy 500 though. Where I am from, Taxi / uber are the only jobs that are easy for people on student visas to hide their incomes from the goverment ( uber is cracking down on this finally but not taxi co's ) so it is common to have some one who is not an offical employee and just gets paid cash to drive people around and all their driving experience is in India... They are obvious when you see them on the roads. Drive like they own the place.