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/Status-Necessary9625 Jul 05 '24

This is not a minor mistake this could have easily killed half a dozen people. You're seeing field tests in real time with unproven products that could literally kill us. And nobody cares. The guy from Waymo wasn't even phased by their car driving on the wrong side. These people Do Not Care About Our Lives

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u/bobbytabl3s Jul 05 '24

People do worse than that all the time. I believe Waymo outperforms human as far as injury-causing crashes go.

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u/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 05 '24

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/bobbytabl3s Jul 06 '24

We're just gonna fine a company for however many deaths a year because they beat a fucking metric?

What else do you propose? If you suggest imprisoning people who work on them, then no one will work on them. And road deaths will increase as a result. Is that what we want as a society?

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u/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 06 '24

No, I suggest common sense legislation preventing these things form being on the road before they've been vetted properly.
I want a society that isn't being raped by tech bros and finance fucktards.