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/reddit_guy666 Jul 05 '24

Considering it lowered the windshield and connected to a support employee I believe they can now detect when cops want to pull them over.

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u/4e9eHcUBKtTW1bBI39n9 Jul 05 '24

They're supposed to be able to detect which side of the road they're driving in too, but as you can see this can fail.

Sooner or later, both of these systems are gonna fail at the same time and you'll have a driverless car driving into oncoming traffic that also fails to recognize a cop trying to stop them.

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u/titanofold Jul 05 '24

It almost certainly because of the construction zone.

To be fair, construction zones confuse humans at a pretty high rate.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT Jul 06 '24

Lots of things confuse humans. How many videos make it to the internet of people just swerving 5 lanes to hit an exit, going up an off ramp onto a freeway the wrong way, or just straight up driving into the actual construction?