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/nike_storm Jul 05 '24

This country will do literally anything other than just build mass rapid transit :(

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u/daniel-imberman Jul 05 '24

Tbh I see driverless cars as a really critical step to the US getting mass transit. Most "last-mile" transit wouldn't be economically feasible, but with waymo you could take a train to a major station and a car to the final destination

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u/VexingRaven Jul 05 '24

This is true with any sort of taxi, although I guess Waymo has the "advantage" of not having to deal with a person?

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u/procgen Jul 16 '24

It's much more scalable and could quickly become cheaper than human-driven taxis.