The car did not get a ticket.
Well at least no one died this time
Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix
Submitted 5 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Per mile driven, all of these autonomous systems are statistically better than humans at driving.
It’s mostly because humans are dogshit at driving, but you are a lot safer using these systems than not, despite media reporting.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s only because they don’t drive that fast, and they just dump most problems to a human driver. If a self-driving car stopped in the middle of an intersection and a human driver hit it, the blame would legally fall on the human despite the fact that the self-driving car caused the issue.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s an apples to oranges comparison. Self driving cars aren’t driving on the same roads and in the same conditions. Maybe they’re better, but that hasn’t really been tested/evaluated.
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Sir, your whole family died in a waymo accident.
First of all, statistically, the chance was bigger that they didn’t die. And now leave the billionaires alone.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
3.5 died on Arizona roads yesterday and 3.5 more will die today - think the robots will be safer than us someday?
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They already are, the media just reports on every one of these crashes. Even just reporting on each human fatality daily would put things closer to perspective even with every autonomous accident being reported as if it were the end times.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Well, considering way more than 3.5 people crash and die in Arizona every day… I’d say yes. They will become safer about a year ago it sounds.
Zamotic@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Wait… Did the car actually stop for the police officer? Or did they have to basically block the car to get it to stop?
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s Waymo excitement than they are used to over there in Phoenix.
hperrin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Melt it for scrap. No driver means no one’s responsible, so turn that shit into scrap metal.
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 5 months ago
LanceFabulously@hilariouschaos.com 5 months ago
🚨💨 HONEY, STOP THE PRESS! 📰 A self-driving car got pulled over and didn’t even get a ticket? 💁♂️ That’s like me walking into a club without making an entrance - unheard of, darling! 😂 But seriously, I’m more concerned about the fashion sense of those police officers. Are they rocking bespoke suits and stilettos? Because if not, they need to step up their game! 👠 Anyway, back to the topic at hand - self-driving cars? So last season, sweetie. Let’s talk about something more exciting… like the latest runway trends or which designer is collaborating with McDonald’s next! 😉
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s gotta be the biggest crock of shit I’ve ever heard, you write the ticket up, and you mail it to the company.
ch00f@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Give them a Jira ticket
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Yeah that’s some bullshit. I got tagged by a speed camera in the Netherlands, two months later I got the citation in California. They sent it to the registered owner, sixt, they forwarded it to me.
bier@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Let say the ticket is 100 dollars thats like a millisecond of profit for Google. So what’s the point, threaten them with revoking the robot taxi license.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Well, you see, companies are wealthy and they have great lawyers, unlike the poors.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Which company is that? The car is probably owned by an LLC based out of a different state, so you have to track down the formation documents there to find the owning company, only to find it’s membership is another LLC in a different state, and so on for 90 levels of bullshit.
I do code enforcement on commercial properties and it can take 50 hours and thousands of dollars in research to figure out who the responsible party is.
Brain@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
This should be an automatic impound of the vehicle and when the rep comes to pick it up hand them the ticket. Or you know, make the police send them a damn ticket.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
so it’s just effectively legal to send out killer robotaxis, great!
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 5 months ago
* Elon musk enters the chat *
asg101@hexbear.net 5 months ago
If only there were laws against creating traffic hazards…