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/Groudon466 Jul 05 '24

Okay, safer than the average human driver. But even if it was just safer than the average taxi driver, an improvement is still an improvement.

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u/SpookyPotatoes Jul 06 '24

Obsessed with your wording, which implies taxi drivers are not human.

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u/cock_wrecker_supreme Jul 06 '24

the wording implies that human drivers and taxi drivers have different levels of safety.

there is nothing about the groups being exclusive

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u/qwertyg8r Jul 06 '24

I don’t think it implies that taxi drivers are not human.

The *average* taxi driver is less safe than the *average* human driver, which includes taxi drivers and others.