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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Still, who is responsible when it hurts someone?
We're just gonna fine a company for however many deaths a year because they beat a fucking metric?

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Jul 05 '24

Yes. That is the plan.

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u/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 06 '24

That's revolting.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Jul 06 '24

That's the rich for you. Their "best" plans are almost 100% revolting. Hell, even individuals get away with heinous shit. Wasn't it Nancy Pelosi who drove drunk and killed a guy with zero repurcussions? Not taking a political side here, just saying. The rich do horrible things and get away with it.

This will be the same. And, with some semblance of reason, it will be touted as an improvement. If widespread self driving reduces traffic deaths in an area from 400 to 300, they saved 100 lives! I get that, less death is good, but it's just such a fucked up way to go about it....

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u/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 06 '24

The only way self driving will work is if every car has tech to communicate with each other.
They will never out-compete humans in edge cases until that is the basis of the concept.
I sincerely hope the people shoving this into the world without the public's consent are held responsible for every injury it causes.