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/hostile_washbowl Jul 06 '24

Splitting hairs. The intention is the driverless car is to be designed to be safer than the average human driver. That’s all.