Driverless Waymo pulled over by Phoenix Police

[@jasperzanjani]

if a human drives poorly he gets a ticket. if an unmanned vehicle drives poorly, you have to open a ticket

[@bradfordjhart]

but these are billionaires we're talking about, they don't need to follow the law while they are making money

[@mannyechaluce3814]

🤣🤣🤣

[@mannyechaluce3814]

let me guess, you work in the IT field 😛

[@warrior_of_da-Tetragrammaton]

Take that cops!

[@StanleyPinchak]

Time to roll back to the revision before this bug was added to reality.

[@nordattack]

I love that fact that the car saw the cop and tried to escape. AI is learning fast.

[@captaincapitalism264]

It had warrants.

[@JimMcnevin]

DID NOT WANT A BEATING !!!

[@mikeklinger1712]

Skynet is learning 😂🤖

[@davidc4576]

Hope It Learns To Film The Police, And Not To Speak To Them.

[@SOU6900]

😆

[@randompersonintheworld232]

Dear Waymo, we need help your cars are driving in oncoming traffic... Waymo: "It's OK. Our cars are 3x better than human drivers.."

[@beebop90]

We called waymo they said they're better at driving than humans 😂 had me dying

[@wpeale71341]

Well.... It evaded officers stopped and did not get impounded. So yes, it is better than humans isn't it.

[@Chunsun-fj2oh]

​@@beebop90the sad truth is they actually are

[@beebop90]

@@Chunsun-fj2oh because there are a handle full

[@VM-lt9wl]

​beebop90 you don't understand basic statistics do you? You compare the trips, hours, and miles driven of the waymo fleet VS real people, add in number of accidents, and find the percentage on each side - almost every AI driving system has been safer than human drivers for a decade now. Think of it like this, for example every 2000 miles of driving a person causes an accident. That would mean waymo only causes an accident every 6000 miles. Once more cars are interconnected and communicate with each other (think smart traffic lights in Vegas) the safety numbers skyrocket! (example number of miles made up for this example)

[@meatpopsicle1567]

Waymo: "We've investigated ourselves and we've found we did nothing wrong."

[@ShariaLawAllDay]

Just like when Israel investigates it's own war crimes.

[@ShariaLawAllDay]

Just like when Israel investigates it's own war crimes.

[@ShariaLawAllDay]

Hhmk

[@MoneyboyGoast]

I mean if every car was waymo they might not follow the rules but they would all get home … someone needs to fix the lights too tired of sitting at a light with 18 cars while 2 cars go by … ai lights as well asap !

[@arctic_haze]

This is exactly what the police does.

[@joshm.2216]

Imagine being road raged by a driverless car. lmao

[@jayp2623]

😂😂😂

[@technocody9296]

Driverless are easier to cut off because they won't accelerate to prevent you from overtake lol

[@bronkdog]

I seen it happen in San Francisco..😂

[@YlecaraOibur]

AI is really advanced 😂

[@Henry-ue6hh]

It was driving in the opposite lane of travel.

[@pewtubee]

These cars are Waymo dangerous than I thought!

[@hindugoat2302]

the police officer was suspiciously a huge fan of waymo.

[@Midnightsadv1bez]

Gaahhhhhh 😅😂

[@fatherof4kids]

Good one.

[@hindugoat2302]

I hear they now have waymo police cruisers for officers to use.

[@Heroas_Hamseros]

Hahaha. Good Pun!

[@smokeyyvevo]

the AI really said “i got warrants” and took off 😂😂😂

[@scottleggejr]

Imagine riding in a driverless car and getting pitted 😂

[@MrAries1066]

"I ain't going back to prison!" -Waymo probably

[@xtiinct3606]

😂

[@Lighthammer66]

😆😆😆

[@AndyDrake-FOOKYT]

"What I did? Ah can't breeef!" - Ai

[@deanevangelista6359]

The car refused to provide ID, and repeated the phrase “I don’t answer questions.”

[@TastySurrealBowl]

Ah - a Sovereign Algorithm.

[@MoneyStrategiesSOULutions]

Lol

[@travisyarbrough4033]

I plead the fifth on a loop ......

[@jlbueno0611]

When cited to court , his ticket was dismissed because the court couldn't provide propr access to the chambers , and they couldn't find a jury of its peers 😂

[@MikesDIY]

It’s self-traveling car

[@curtthackeray8967]

What if you had an unmanned police car, pulling over a Waymo. Now, that's a video that would be worth watching.

[@limiv5272]

I give it 4 years before something like that happens

[@fllthdcrb]

Really? Maybe it would be amusing for a minute, but I figure it would get boring pretty fast, since the cars would just be sitting there doing nothing. Or are you saying things would go quite wrong in such an encounter? 😆

[@curtthackeray8967]

@@fllthdcrb It was just a joke. Plain and simple.

[@Willy-hs7uu]

Reminds me of those videos of Alexa and Siri talking to each other. the scary part will be when Ai gets pissed off about humans making them drive on the same road as bad human drivers. ever see that movie "Maximum Overdrive" ?

[@beautybonvoyage8624]

How would unmanned police car work? Pull you over and email you a ticket? Maybe shutdown your vehicle using the internet since your vehicle would be online?

[@CM80085]

There must have been ethanol in the gas. The car was drunk! 🍸

[@helpis0ntheway]

🤣😂

[@bradfordjhart]

they are all electric

[@_andre007]

@@bradfordjhart🤦‍♂️

[@erikledmad]

@@bradfordjhartno, they are Patrick

[@unixsuperuser]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mellowdramatic33]

Hmm. “It was only for a minute”. I’ll try that next time I do something stupid. “But officer. It was only for a minute. Maybe less”.

[@charlescarmichael1124]

Wonder if that works with the ladies...😂😂😂

[@UneducatedGeologist]

Exactly. Oncoming traffic only for a minute.

[@chaosking911]

I'm sure those officers will treat you with the same respect, understanding and empathy as the empty car owned by a behemoth of a corporation, it is America after all... Oh wait...it is America after all...

[@manp1039]

The reporter mentioned inconsistent construction signage, which can be confusing not only for self-driving vehicles but also for human drivers. Even a brief disruption like this shows how important clear signage is for everyone on the road.

[@nickshallwani2577]

Bet the cops still smelled 'the odor of marijuana', then pulled out and beat the CPU.

[@gametalk3149]

lmfao

[@patrickdunn8918]

No doubt…

[@nickshallwani2577]

@MrSatoshi-xn2dn but not legal to smoke and drive. Your point you fact check a joke tells me all I need to know about how fun you are at parties.

[@UltraCasualPenguin]

​​@MrSatoshi-xn2dn So, it's legal to drive in Azov while smoking drugs? Makes sense in country where you can drive 200 km/h with 4‰ BAC and get slap on wrist.

[@TimSmith-v4z]

Confirmed - the CPU was black

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

Waymo lowers the window and turns its camera at the officer. Officer: There is a strange odor coming from your speakers..

[@veganconservative1109]

Air conditioning, more likely.

[@fitybux4664]

Car: "I was only consuming ethanol officer, honest!" (Cars can run off ethanol, but humans get drunk by it.)

[@dizzlebizzle8424]

"Programmed to detect emergency vehicles and programmed to safely turn to the side of the road"

[@TRUMPeterswan1624]

yeah b/c the police officer "was in its way". 😲 oh well excuse the officer! wtaf

[@AndyDrake-FOOKYT]

​@@andreaphillian3947and 90% better at running down humans when skynet decides it's time for the overt destruction of humanity. It's in its subversive phase at the moment.

[@AndyDrake-FOOKYT]

​@@andreaphillian3947 if the cop was blocking its way then why didn't it stop for the emergency vehicle?

[@Crocos1]

​@@andreaphillian3947 It's only better because humans tend to be careless about themselves and other drivers, maybe we need harsher restrictions on those looking or renewing their licenses.

[@omargoodman2999]

​@@AndyDrake-FOOKYT It wasn't explained all that clearly, but if I had to fill in the holes with most likely scenario spackle, I'd make an educated guess it played out like this: There was construction along one side (or both) of the road, but the signage was poorly placed. It was likely giving conflicting detour or cautionary directions (eg. Both "go straight" and "turn left"). The AI for the car is functionally Autistic; it's going to parse out the directions overly specific and precise. When they're clear and consistent, that's fine, it'll be a far better driver than any human could ever hope to be. Not _perfect,_ mind you, but it doesn't have to be. Better is still better, even if not flawless. So the car was trying to follow all these contradicting directions on the signs and looks like it's drunk. Police car comes up to pull it over, but there's *still* that construction on the side of the road. It's likely programmed to find a safe spot to pull over and not in a way that blocks traffic. The car's AI made a decision that it was unsafe to stop in a construction area and block an already restricted flow road. So it was trying to navigate to a safe spot to pull over. But it *also* has instructions that if an emergency vehicle is trying to pass it, it's allowed to make way, even if that means pulling into an active intersection (eg. Allowing an ambulance or fire truck to pass). This probably kicked in because it was close to an intersection and it thought it was supposed to pull through the intersection because a police car with flashing lights has right of way through the intersection. Therefore, since it was trying to find a place to safely pull over *for* said police car, it _also_ would have the same right of way, since the police car was "shepherding" it through; at least, that was the conclusion the AI arrived at given all the information available to it at the time. It was an incredibly logical and reasonable incorrect answer to the situation, based on awareness of many circumstances a human wouldn't consider, as well as keen awareness of driving laws and safe driving techniques. It's just they were all pieced together in a way that hit a corner case (poorly signed construction zone, police stop, near an intersection, perfect storm for AI misalignment). The *real* issue is that, in the same kind of situation, a Human would say, "screw the signs, screw pulling over safely, screw allowing emergency vehicles through, screw all of that. I'll just do what I want with a minimum of info and consideration and hope for the best". And when it works, no one complains. When it doesn't, no one questions. 40% error rate for a Human driver; perfectly acceptable and expected. 0.1% error rate from an AI; intolerable, the whole idea is a bust, computers just can't drive like people can.

[@glitteryroses]

I wish they stopped being defensive and just worked on improving these cars instead. If it was driving erratically, it was. Nobody cares whether they're better drivers than humans. That's not why they got pulled over, is it?

[@WARVIATION]

"i've got an unmanned vehicle that was taking off from me" Had me laughing 😆

[@MaverickPhantom]

That cop exaggerated things, as they often do. If this happens to people, at times exaggerated unnecessary use of force is applied - well... more of these cars will change police behavior

[@unknowing203]

😂😂😂😂

[@liamsouthwell27]

I laughed harder when the bodycam tried to blur the driver's face before it realised....

[@fleetwoodmacncheese4159]

I'd normally laugh but I'm still concerned about a robot takeover... like in that Spongebob episode where Spongebob and Squidward went insane in a folie à deux situation and tied up Mr. Krabs and beat him....... Fr though, driverless cars actually sound horrifying idc if they're safe or not. I'm not getting in Christine, hell no... 🥝💚🖤

[@corsairsofnarshaddaa]

@@liamsouthwell27 That's either PD editing after or KZbin, not sure.

[@garcjr]

"The Waymo on a mission with no regard for the cars surrounding it." It's safe to say Waymo has officially learned how to be a Phoenix driver. It's done becoming one it is one now.

[@TheNorthernHouse10]

😂😂😂

[@fragoutrambo6381]

Nah fr😂

[@MannyBrum]

The way they train AI these days it wouldn't surprise me if it was learning from other drivers.

[@directorbeau]

Skynet is a learning computer

[@jessemartinez6513]

If AI can one day have dreams and emotions like I robot then it surely will integrate to acting like a human

[@captaincapitalism264]

I'm Gen X and started using computers in junior high school in the 80s. I'm as comfortable as can be with my android phone, Xbox, laptop, & desktop. But you'll never get me into one of these Johnny Cabs. As a MIT graduate-level cybersecurity professional told me once, defense will always lag behind offense, period...so I'm never trusting an automobile that can be hacked.

[@PotatoePC]

Alright! You totally took me back with the Johnny Cab comment! Hope you enjoyed the ride!

[@fred_derf]

So when automated cars show themselves to be far, far safer than human operated cars are you going to feel the same? When you're ten times more likely to be in an accident with a human driven taxi than an automated one, you're still going to choose the human operated one?

[@clairdelunefan]

The hacking issue is what frightens me too. When it comes to cyber security, people don't get the chaos that bad actors can cause. Nothing online is totally secure. NOTHING!

[@fred_derf]

@@clairdelunefan, writes _"Nothing online is totally secure."_ Nothing is totally secure, period. Automated cars don't have to be perfect to be much safer than human operated vehicles.

[@clairdelunefan]

@@fred_derf ~ Yes, I know that. But consider the consequences of hackers infiltrating and intentionally causing mass accidents.

[@3RAN7ON]

Waymo car starts playing the song "F the police", doesn't pull over and leads them on a high-speed chase 😂

[@mrmanlet7385]

Must've trained itself watching wheres981 videos.

[@ImprovmanZero]

Get Arkansas Highway Patrol to fight them

[@timessiah94]

Turns into on coming traffic "Move bitch get out da way"

[@mmmfun77]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dimetime35c]

Only a certain color of car does that......

[@Freedomishere-im6ug]

Wamo does not have a driver license to lose

[@Hppyhppy2]

It should be using the CEO of the companies license when there's too many points the CEO loses his license too

[@kassarc16]

They have permission to operate that they could lose on every single vehicle, sounds worse

[@markplott4820]

but, WAYMO can be BANNED.

[@NextNate03]

All of their employees don't have driver licenses? 😂

[@Knglx]

*waymo

[@michaeld4861]

The perfect corporate way to evade laws and/or blame the victims when they cause an accident. "Well nobody was driving so I guess nobody is at fault."

[@davidwood-c5m]

So the company doesn’t get a ticket? That’s not right!

[@ywtv6]

​@@seseLsanhe is

[@Area51-is6vg]

Did you see how the officer was nice to the Waymo's employee? 🤣🤣🕺🕺

[@SI0AX]

They said that they do give them citations, it's just not that often.

[@MaverickPhantom]

Yes it is. Tickets are to increase revenue for the states

[@DebbieOnTheSpot]

Google is the US government. It would be like a cop taking a judge to jail for DUI.. Same team.

[@gophersmith]

2025: "Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice message system."

[@fitybux4664]

Your call is VERY important to us. Our call volume is currently above average, and your wait times may be extended into tomorrow or the day after. To request a call back, press one.

[@andreabradley5837]

Are you ready for your big ass fries?

[@winterdesert1]

I'm in Phoenix and here's what I notice. Those Waymo cars do NOT drive like humans. They drive much faster and ALWAYS cut directly in front of cars. Unlike a human, they can detect other speeds of cars, so they floor it with only moments to spare. To a human it looks very careless.

[@wolfgangmarvelous7239]

The cop should have had it impounded.

[@JMyoutube1]

I'm surprised the cop didn't try and give the passenger a ticket.

[@billoneil397]

@@JMyoutube1 there was no passenger. 0:19

[@chipskylark8869]

The car went for my gun... im a comedian ​@@JMyoutube1

[@bmacd2112]

...And lost the paperwork on which impound it went to!🤣

[@Vyshada]

Why? These cars all have the same software, if one of them is so dangerous in needs to be impounded, then ALL of them should be kept off the roads. Honestly, i don't even think it's a police job. It's a matter of regulations.

[@iSlandeRon]

I heard they wrestled down and arrested the waymo and charged it with resisting arrest. Totally legit charge.

[@netizen_a]

Did it get riddled with bullets?

[@Slithey7433]

Fleeing!

[@trevormillar1576]

Judge Dredd once gave a robot vehicle 30-to-life in the Cubes for drunk driving! (Don't ask!)

[@davidlane256]

The cop was upset because the taser had no effect. 😢

[@Pretzel86c]

The whole time yelling STOP RESISTING STOP RESISTING!

[@1s3ngr1m]

Waymo: "I welcome our robot overlords!" Phoenix Police: "Hold my citation notepad!"

[@seeharvester]

"License and registration please."

[@theblacksamurai6329]

And insurance 😂😂😂

[@markplott4820]

I dont talk to COPS.

[@Resist_JWO_1984]

​@markplott4820 That would be funny to see when THIN BLUE LINE TERRORIST hears it over the speakers. But in reality, Waymo is a bootlicking💩, who'll obey every unlawful, unconstitutional demand.

[@ro7601]

What is that 😂

[@doublesman0]

Let me see your hands , YOUR HANDS

[@chuckgilly]

Thats way-mo than I care for.

[@markplott4820]

ho-mo cars

[@f-puppet]

no you didn't

[@red9delta877]

Get out

[@TRUMPeterswan1624]

😂😂😂 ima start calling libs whoamos. b/c when u see their crazy ure like whoa!😂 waymos for whoamos

[@StanleyKubick1]

nice

[@timessiah94]

Why are these allowed on the road in the first place?

[@aisha2370]

Yeah, shouldn't we have had to be asked first? 🧐

[@yanwonj7064]

If a driverless car hits and kills someone, who will go to jail? I hate how laws allow unsufficiently developed tech on the road.

[@mitchb2305]

It's weird how people are barely outraged by this on these boards. Way more jokes than I thought there'd be.

[@lablaine1981]

In my 80 yrs ...some really bad examples of products foisted on j.q.public...in name of $$$,then lawyers help them slink away like 🐛🐛

[@SafetyisFirst]

There will be a major lawsuit that'll bankrupt the company.

[@nommadd5758]

@@SafetyisFirst : I'll bet there won't!

[@powerhouse884]

@@SafetyisFirstNo, no there wont. The Car even tho it did things it shouldn’t… it didn’t kill anyone or cause anything worst like a PERSON would. It has Cameras at 360 range all the time and Human errors can be spotted. THIS is how the software learns and gets updated, they need real world situations like these. Still it was easier to pull over VS some crazy person on the wheel.

[@A3Kr0n]

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[@kassarc16]

Sounds like another Cabin Man we know.

[@nathanieloakleaves5789]

"This and that is the only true way." - some old dead white guy

[@septembersurprise5178]

"There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level." - Mark Twain

[@Username-2]

Emerson was a clown

[@travisyarbrough4033]

Elon has the robots and they have the Robotaxi that ends jobs and safety

[@ever.silva7]

They say "Better driver than a human", you know decadence starts with arrogance

[@mediocreman2]

"They are able to cite Waymo". Yeah but they didn't and they won't.

[@MaskOfCinder]

And it wouldn’t matter anyway. A company doesn’t care about an individual ticket like an individual human does.

[@Harold_Callahan]

Any company that claims to or tries to be GREEN will get a total pass and is allowed to do anything they please. Welcome to woke America.

[@38Maelstorm]

@@MaskOfCinder True. On top of that, since the AI doesn't have a license, and it doesn't care. It's a computer. There's no repercussions of getting a ticket, except a fine. Who's license are you going to apply the points to?

[@SecretSauceyjuice]

​@@MaskOfCinderYeah actually...what happens if they get 'points'? How many points until they lose their license? Who loses the license? Each vehicle or the entire fleet?

[@captaincapitalism264]

@@SecretSauceyjuice Questions which states need to start coming up with answers for, because we're only going to see more problems with these F'd up Johnny Cabs, not less.

[@DarthVader1977]

This is low-key advertising disguised as news.

[@WolfHeathen]

Now translate what you just said into a real TV advertisement: "Our self-driving cars drive in opposite traffic and risk the lives of innocent people for your convenience. Waymo - Get there faster. (powered by Waymo Driver™ technology)." It's bad PR if anything.

[@HawkAlumn]

Advertising that hurts the image of the product?

[@UmUs]

Yes, advertising how bad some of them drive, I don't get it

[@CoreyandCrew]

Some say any publicity is good publicity...

[@DarthVader1977]

@@HawkAlumn You all completely missed how they SUBTLY towards the end switched the story to how they fixed/ are fixing the problem. Advertising works best on people with SHORT attention spans.

[@ashxxiv]

they need to be cited every single time. no excuses. treat each individual vehicle as an individual person.. give a warning or two then appropriately cite waymo for every incident thereafter. how is that not already happening? it's AI vs. human lives, and the company behind the AI gets let off the hook? absolutely unacceptable.

[@LOOSEbowelz]

They need Waymo Research lmao 🤣

[@abuhaadiyah9403]

You win

[@f-puppet]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙏🙏

[@jrzgcwrocks]

This is it! Let's get the person some comments 😂😂😂

[@awdobsession717]

Winner

[@tailsorange2872]

That's a cool pun, right there.

[@DampySenpai]

Imagine the vehicle rolling down its drivers side window and plays Optimus Prime’s speeches to the cop.😂

[@ChrisBGramz4u]

how many tickets can Waymo get before they lose their right to drive? or are corporations exempt from road laws?

[@TRIPLEDIGITS]

Police don't give those cars for a billion dollar company citations.... but give hard working ppl get tickets

[@joes7004]

You must be joking

[@TRIPLEDIGITS]

@joes7004 It was worded wrong

[@bobbymoss6160]

Maybe don't drive like traffic laws don't apply to you or learn to read signs, and you won't get pulled over...

[@Jblaze024]

​@@bobbymoss6160you don't even have to do that to get pulled over

[@TRIPLEDIGITS]

@@bobbymoss6160 I agree with you. Absolutely. Cops pull be over for being a black male.

[@TheUrbanBeekeepers]

Car runs over an old lady, officer presses the help button, a minimum wage call center employee resolves the whole thing. Brilliant job.

[@scottleggejr]

Some Indian guy asking you if the victim has an extended warranty 😂

[@MavisRecon]

And where is all the outrage from the safety-obsessed leftists? Their very pungent and very deliberate brand of paranoia could finally be used for good here, but that's also why they're silent right now.

[@97ShadowDark]

@@scottleggejrand demands payment with gift cards

[@maxwellcrazycat9204]

With a heavy Indian or Pakistani accent.

[@Schlabbeflicker]

@@maxwellcrazycat9204 Claiming to be "Brian from Texas" or something similarly absurd

[@oldtwinsna8347]

Ridiculous how once again billion dollar corporations get away with the law. A normal driver would've been cited and have to pay the fine. These driverless cars should be automatically tied to an executive of the company and be issued the citation personally.

[@MAXIMUMintheHORMONE]

I'd imagine there's some city leaders that have a stake or just flat out bribes from that company. Notice the press cop at the end sounding like a salesman. The car went into oncoming lane and he's all praises.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

Billionaires own those writing laws, so...

[@nsvo9038]

A normal driver would have been arrested and possibly shot for"resisting"

[@terrylandess6072]

Just one more step out of line by elites. Sure, they have more managerial/political layers of protection than ever before in history, but a mob is a mob - so don't piss it off.

[@TRUMPeterswan1624]

AGREED

[@SpaceRanger187]

If this was one of us they would have said we were drinking and been taken to jail..But just blame it on the OS...

[@rootkhan3254]

I mean yeah if you use logic for a second that makes sense? If someone had been hit and killed then maybe you would have a point but obviously if a human were driving like this there is definitely something wrong with them so they should be held accountable. This was probably just a software glitch not some road raging AI Teen Drunk Driver who slammed into a Family of Four While texting on their cell phone. Fox news watchers so dramatic and sensitive 😂😂😂😂 computer car has software glitch - "BAN ALL THE TECHNOLOGY'S WAAAAAAAH"

[@williammain7281]

Well, lets follow the police around and see how they drive.

[@maxhugen]

Might try that if I get pulled over: "Sorry officer, just had a glitch in my OS." 😝

[@Beau-qx9il]

An officer can’t just say someone is driving drunk and take them to jail

[@jaytee9111]

​@@Beau-qx9il They absolutely can. If you pass the breathalyzer, they will then do a blood draw to see if you were impaired by drugs rather than alcohol. If you're proven clean, then you can go. When a cop arrests someone for DUI, it's always "suspicion of DUI" until it gets proven otherwise.

[@oscarbravo9009]

Lane closures or any other obstruction such as construction seems to be beyond the capability of self-driving cars.

[@SK-lt1so]

Why is she so ardently excusing Waymo?

[@danielboone8435]

Reading a statement?

[@ericcarterofthehillpeople]

@@danielboone8435 She could seek some evidence for their claims. She doesn't have to read the statement as though it's all fact.

[@danielboone8435]

@@ericcarterofthehillpeople She's not. She's just reading it. She never said it was a fact. People like you are the same reason they have to use the word allegedly to describe things that probably actually happened. On the off chance the thing didn't actually happen. If she didn't read the statement she would be accused of bias against waymo. You can't win with stupid.

[@Clinton-n7x]

have you ever seen humans drive? 40,000 people die every year from auto car accidents in the u.s.a. it makes national headlines when one tesla runs into a wall while on autopilot in a construction zone because the driver is on their phone.

[@BufordDuckworth]

Because Waymo advertises with the station.

[@LSnium]

Imagine trusting your life in a thing that takes off whenever it wants to and can glitch or malfunction whenever it wants.

[@islw2863]

Imagine trusting your life in a thing that takes off whenever it wants to and can glitch or malfunction whenever it wants. Like Joe Biden Reply

[@thomasgirty6397]

dont talk about ME like that!!!!

[@captaincapitalism264]

You'll never get me in a Johnny Cab.

[@mjverdi]

If we have to share the road with them, we're all trusting our lives to them.

[@bbaucom2]

So I guess you NEVER ride as a passenger, fly an airplane, bus, or train, etc.

[@gopherchucksgamingnstuff2263]

Wow, it has more rights than we do.

[@22lrjayden81]

Driverless car drives off: “STOP RESISTING”

[@AKJames762]

Of course, don't punish the company. What happens when the flawed technology pulls the same thing again and hits an ADOT worker, a pedestrian or another driver? Lawsuit. That's what. This is a stupid technology.

[@Hangar1318]

If it was up to people like you, we wouldn't have commercial flights

[@AKJames762]

@Hangar1318 no, if it were up to me there would be no more alcohol served on commercial flights

[@AKJames762]

@Hangar1318 I'm assuming you're referring to the auto pilot tech in planes. At least on a flight, there are 2 pilots to address issues or disengage the auto pilot and take control, in these waymo cars there is no one sitting in them to take control when they do stupid things like drive the wrong way in a construction zone.

[@questonblock]

Your PFP is that of a gun barrel, your opinion is automatically dismissed

[@AKJames762]

@questonblock and making the statement of invalidating an opinion, by default, invalidates yours. Anyone can play this idiotic game

[@GlassSandwichTV]

Nevermind that the next video playing is about 600+ Waymo cars being recalled...

[@mikeklinger1712]

One can hope! What a road hazard

[@GarySmith-up1un]

Hope so 🙏

[@ljre3397]

The whole thing was over in a minute? That’s terrifying think of closing your eyes for one minute while in traffic.

[@davidshakespeare9767]

If I did this what happens? Robot has better rights than humans?

[@danieldaniels7571]

If you were smart and got a ticket for it, you would go to trial and provide evidence that shows the misplaced signs directed you to drive in that lane and have your case dismissed

[@ricksomething]

You drive stupid all the time.

[@davidshakespeare9767]

@@danieldaniels7571 but have to take time off work to “fight” it

[@danieldaniels7571]

@@davidshakespeare9767 seems like a good reason to use PTO to me

[@rah.248]

@@davidshakespeare9767 So do you want them to ticket the robots? what more do you want LOL

[@macgyver112]

Officer has a lot of trust on AI not to just suddenly start driving while his hands are inside the vehicle. Atleast with humans you can see what they are about to do but with AI you don't get the same kind of advanced warning.

[@QMANVEGAS1]

The sgt. at the end sounded like he was doing a promo for Waymo.

[@rogergeyer9851]

He might have been, given how commercialized KZbin is now. And the way corporations do marketing.

[@unncommonsense]

I'm sure Waymo paid for the police training that was mentioned and maybe Sarge there got paid a little extra to teach it.

[@62Cristoforo]

What good is a HELP button when it’s still driving erratically?

"I don't see any good of it" the guy says. Brother, everything you complained about, bad humans do on the regular. The difference is, the humans are doing on purpose, because they're Aholes. The robot's doing it because some sort of failure to do its task... which means in time it'll be better. The "good of it" is obvious, and you just have to accept it's not perfected yet. At least there are efforts to perfect, whereas humans will be always have a portion that are terrible drivers.

[@luvpamelanewton]

Twice Waymo drove behind me when I was already backing out of my driveway. It almost hit it both times. It should have let me finish, but it skirted by right behind me when it wasn't originally there when I started to back out. It never stopped nor slowed down. It came out of nowhere driving fast. There is no regard to a residential area and homeowners should be able to back out of their own driveway without an unmanned car whizzing from behind, not even slowing down to the car in front of it that is already half way into the road.

[@kunka592]

Humans have accountability (consequences), an innate need of survival, harm avoidance, and empathy of others. These machines have none of that beyond what the programmers can predict in normal traffic. Even if they were safe, which it doesn't seem like, I'd never trust it to drive me or anyone I care for around.

[@rogergeyer9851]

As if drunk drivers, drugged up drivers, angry drivers, sleepy drivers, and on and on have things like empathy consistently, re the way they drive. You are clueless and irrational.

[@patriot692]

Right!! Only brainless, or the suicidal would get in that car!! 💩🪿💥😆

[@rah.248]

speak for yourself, I commute to work using Waymo and feel safer in these driverless cars than I do in a actual taxi or uber ride. Not to forget I dont have to worry about tipping them😂

[@ThomasGriffin-zn1rr]

Hell No, Maybe bout 10 yrs down the road when the bugs are worked out Maybe but NO!!

[@alvaroq2024]

@@rah.248now we know you’re a cheapskate!

[@Thee_Sinner]

How about showing the actual incident..?

[@evilborg]

I would never ever get into a self driving that I cannot stop if I had too

[@blueshadow62]

Thy r just not 100% ready

[@Jay2006_W]

Tesla

[@JohnnyGification]

People that say, they will never get into a driverless car are the same people that probably said, I'll never take a picture with my phone. Times are changing buddy, like it or not.

[@lancetruong4957]

@@JohnnyGification It's safe until there is an accident. Then, it'll be unsafe.

[@TheRealScooterGuy]

How do you feel about cars driven by others? Taxis, Uber, etc.?

[@journeytree]

how these are allowed on the streets is unbelievable, yet I get pulled over and ticketed for going 5mph over while in full control of my vehicle on a completely empty street.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

Well it IS a speed LIMIT.

[@journeytree]

@@ThatOpalGuy the driverless car can drive in the wrong lane and zero fine will be administered is my point

[@danieldaniels7571]

​@@journeytreemisplaced signage indicated it was the correct lane

[@alS900]

It’s the future get over it

[@KronosOnPC]

@@alS900the future or not, we can’t allow this level of unsafe driverless vehicles on public roads. There needs to be a lot of testing done on race tracks. This looks about as good as it’s been for the past 8 years. That’s embarrassing for the developers. The real stupid people are the ones willing to enter such a risky situation.

[@serialvapist5807]

"Better driver than humans" drives straight into traffic

[@MAXIMUMintheHORMONE]

Sounds like Waymo has made some politicians in the area's wallets fatter. That 'press' cop at the end should have just wore a Waymo shirt and attached his badge. Follow the money.

[@helpis0ntheway]

🎯💯

[@Jblaze024]

Yep, trying to tell people Google lobbied for these cars to be on the road and had their attorneys probably right up clauses to exclude them from liability.

[@travisyarbrough4033]

Yep !!!! Jobs lost and politicians richer .....

[@asecretcinema]

I thought the same thing. And the FOX 10 presentation was dystopian af. It sounded like they're being paid by Waymo. The local news, at least, should be more critical. Of both Waymo and Phoenix PD.

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

No journalism here. Only PR for waymo. "News conglomerate, fast clean this mess for us."

[@MrGruffteddybear]

Saw a Waymo come right up to barricades blocking a street for a marathon. It ignored the barricades and turned right down the street the marathon was running.

[@ILiveInAVanDownByTheRiver]

Not the cop talking like the customer was driving.

[@hi-lx7wr]

Exactly my thoughts

[@OmnimousPotato]

The car was empty bud…

[@starshine3588]

I think he was talking to the people in charge of the Waymos….they have a way of communicating with them from inside the vehicle. Either that or the AI part of the car…I think it can take commands or something.

[@robinangkapurnomo9000]

There’s probably an admin supervising from india

[@DroneBeeStrike]

​@@robinangkapurnomo9000I've seen how they drive over there so I'm not surprised

[@TheCiaMKultra]

" I think I smell Marijuana, could you step out of the car for me ? " .....😂

[@______4790]

SIR I SAID STEP OUT OF THE VEHICLE

[@hobowithawaterpistol9070]

Officer: “Do you know why I pulled you over?” Waymo: I just left your garage after giving your wife’s Mercedes a jump!” 😂

[@antoniosabio8335]

The Head of Waymo should be given the ticket a long with the people that wrote program. They all should be held personally liable and not able to hide behind the company.

[@Jblaze024]

They lobbied for it to not happen. Why do you think the cops are so passive about it.

[@Jblaze024]

Now you know who they protect and serve and it's not us

[@bmacd2112]

And make that ticket a mandatory court appearance required!

[@gmc9753]

If there's 20 people involved in writing the software, you're saying all those programmers should get tickets? Also, all the managers of the project too, since they have to come up with the specs for the software and supervise the programmers. What about all the people that test the cars and the software? They should be even more responsible since they decide if everything is ready for production or not. So it's probably at least 100 people involved.

[@jd35711]

calm down

[@Margrace-i8n]

USUAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLECTS

[@snow-uq4gx]

😂😂😂😂

[@skilltone4]

how many artifical intellects?

[@sminem6572]

You certainly don’t have any of that or the natural type!

[@ANTI_FAscist_WW2champs]

@@skilltone480 hundred

[@snow-uq4gx]

@@sminem6572 🪞 🤧😏

[@JPs-q1o]

Did he beat the car within an inch of it's life and drag it off to the impound lot without cause just to keep the policing consistent?

[@jameswest9261]

What will it be like when the vehicle is a robotic Semi truck and trailer?

[@ThatOpalGuy]

When they are all robotic they will 'talk' to each other and know exactly what each other car is doing, unlike humans. Then again, they will be hackable.

[@brianwolf692009]

They already have them...and school busses

[@lesliewelch6551]

Can not wait, imagine the damage it could cause, I am amazed the have not been hacked.

[@heypistolero]

@@lesliewelch6551 I mean, look at the damaged our regular drivers have caused? I'm not all for AI cars, but AI semis might actually be safer. They run self-diagnostics, know exactly the slope and turns on the road, and not hires drivers, just hire people to make sure they are safe to driver before they leave the lot

[@joeschmo622]

They're hire AI drivers from Swift and Amazon. ☠☠☠

[@junito1008]

Police officer: License and registration. Waymo: what’s that??

[@mup_pet]

American journalists really don't like holding truth to power, do they? I've just done a cursory DuckDuckGo on Waymo, and it's alarming, to say the least.

[@ManuelGonzalez-kq2yz]

One of those cars parked right in front of our driveway entrance as we were about to pull out and we had to wait like 20 min until it moved they need to fix this

[@blueshadow62]

Did u flip off or cuss @ it⁉️🙄😆

[@ManuelGonzalez-kq2yz]

Yep

[@Rubeless]

Truck with a good push bar.

[@ManuelGonzalez-kq2yz]

Bro that car has like 50 cameras per side lol

[@MartintheTinman]

Should have flattened the tyres. If you remove the valve and then replace it there's no damage

[@puffnstuff12]

Waymo should've been ticketed just like any other driver.

[@scottleggejr]

A human would not have made that error 🤷‍♂️ regardless of signage issues, common sense...

[@TRUMPeterswan1624]

we'd be tazed and in jail for that, just a ticket?!

[@DonziGT230]

@@scottleggejr BS. I've seen lots of humans make that mistake and others in construction zones.

[@bobruda]

If the car won't stop, how do you reach inside and push the help button? Who do you sue if you are injured by a driverless car? The car manufacturer? The car company operator or the city council that approved its operation?

[@henryechezabal758]

If there is a Waymo related crash, does liability attach?

[@danieldaniels7571]

Yes, and they are very well insured

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

Waymo does not care. Any tickets have already been factored into costs.

[@petergilbert144]

If these things glitch so much when something that isn't an ideal situation occurs, there should be a person in the vehicle ready to take over. These are obviously not fully autonomous. If it's illegal to be completely distracted or napping with Autopilot, how the heck is this legal?

[@sockrabbtt]

"much better than humans" last time I checked, most humans have never driven down the wrong side of the road

[@Starworshipper]

Last time I checked, more humans have driven down the wrong side of the road than Waymo's.

[@1964mcqueen]

This raises a lot of questions. What if the car is driving in a dangerous manner? What if the police are searching for someone in a Waymo? Are Waymos programmed to stop for police? If they are programmed to stop for police, will they stop for bad guys impersonating police?

[@thesquatchdoctor3356]

Gets pulled over, just like you All passengers in these cars are recorded and human monitors can view those cameras in real time. And you have to have the app which knows your credit card info. Yes, all cars must stop for emergency vehicles Yes, but so would you...

[@StanleyPinchak]

​@@thesquatchdoctor3356not if the situation screamed don't stop because this is a car jacking / kidnapping.

[@MidnightPulse1]

Did you not hear them say it knows to stop for emergency vehicles?

[@mrwanderlive]

You obviously didn't watch the whole video lol

[@kwamestanciel2513]

The likely answer is that the construction signage was simply incorrect. Waymo driverless cars are using machine learning to take illegal, but necessary evasive actions to such as briefly driving into opposite traffic lanes to continue the flow of thru traffic. This is the right way.

[@lankey6969]

WHY DO WE NEED THESE?

[@Fred-mp1vf]

We don't!

[@FRENZEE-l3]

Get them out of the roads

[@gunnertramel8914]

Those things are dangerous they cut people off several times. They reported them to the police and nothing happens. When They hit me I’m going to sue them for everything I can getout of them.

[@Detroit_Dawg]

1:16 what was the point of this shot 😅

[@c0pyimitati0n]

Dude don't get me started on dumbass news shots 😂🤦‍♂️ They think they're being clever but it's just dumb. Like when an accident happens and they have nothing to show so they just go and film a street sign

[@__S__435]

This whole thing is like a long commercial for Waymo

[@rah.248]

Aye Detroit what up doe!

[@RS-ig1mc]

How anyone has that little self dignity to trust a computer to drive them around in a four thousand pound machine is beyond me. I will always have a steering wheel in my hand, 2 pedals (sometimes 3) on my feet, and a combustion engine and no communist will ever take that away from me

[@cynthiamilo5571]

If that was a human, I don’t think the officer would have been so friendly. So, if a human is driving an autopilot Telsa can they just blame the car and not get a citation? “Opps there was construction” my car was confused

[@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC]

The company should be treated just the same. You shouldn't get to abdicate responsibility to an AI in order to shield yourself from liability. If anyone else had such a driving record, they would have had their license revoked a long time ago. Shouldn't be any different, anything else is admitting that the purpose of the law is not safety.

[@Jblaze024]

​@@PSUQDPICHQIEIWCthis company lobbied for this. Why do you think driverless cars are on the road.

[@rootkhan3254]

You fox news watchers have the weirdest logic. Autopiloting a tesla is not the same as a driverless car lol In the future its highly unlikely these will even be "driverless" theyre obviously just experimenting with the technology. But yeah in the mean time worry about driverless cars that barely kill anyone while some drunk or distracted driver kills someones family everyday.

[@paritybit7830]

Currently you have to pay attention and stop Teslas from doing bad things, and similarly for other cars with driver assist, but when they get to the point that they *actually* drive themselves and you're allowed to take a nap or watch a movie, then the car company would be responsible for their behavior. They may limit their liability significantly in the software license if allowed to do so. Hopefully the laws won't allow companies to shift liability (other than by buying insurance, of course), but laws are made by politicians so.... well, we'll have to see when we get there.

[@brianwolf692009]

That's the way it looks.

[@sumper_man]

They got a Waymo just for this story😂

[@danieldebrosse9246]

Did the part in the video about the signage being inconsistent (1:39) get checked for validity? If true, the signage in the construction zone needs to be corrected before there is a serious injury accident.

[@OttoByOgraffey]

This is so dumb. We are light years away from driverless vehicles being self-sufficient. These should never be on the road.

[@VM-lt9wl]

They've been safer than human drivers for a decade. How many wrong way drivers do you see daily on the news? Drunk, speeding, etc etc. By that logic humans shouldn't be allowed to drive.

[@Zutang777]

I have taken like 100 trips on these. They are INSANELY efficient. I only had one awkward experience of it trying to pull in to a turn lane and was holding up traffic for 20 seconds. no one would let it in. So it just went straight.

[@TheExonalex]

"it was the car that drove over 10 people. There's no human to send in prison.. what we can say. It was a fatality " oh yeah? I didn't choose to be killed by an automatic car and there's no justice for that.

[@M3rVsT4H]

But it was only a minute...

[@TheExonalex]

@@M3rVsT4H "yeah the car work perfectly fine for the rest of the time! It's way safer than a human driver".... "The law is equal for everyone" sure thing.. already different for rich people and now we have to be killed by corporate technology as well

[@chemomancer]

Waymos driving like that isn't a rarity - me and my buddies call it "lane pong". I absolutely do believe that Waymo should be issued citations for unsafe driving as you would a human driver, and if those citations make the company financially non-viable... well that just tells you the real truth about their safety and social benefit, now doesn't it?

[@realmongo7565]

Why are these things allowed on the public streets???

[@VM-lt9wl]

Because they've been better drivers than people for a decade.

[@bullcrap9409]

Predictable. Waymo refuses to be intere interviewed.

[@TransitShorts]

I think on average, it performs better than a human. I think the issue stems from the fact (and they won’t admit this to the public) that the confidence interval of the driving performance is relatively wide, leading to the potential for somewhat rare, but definitely significant errors especially in volatile situations like road closures and detours as we see here. So while their claim may be correct, there is another half of the story they just don’t tell you…

[@danielrodrigues2041]

You asked them about errors in thier cars and they avoided the question with some BS answer. Ridiculous!

[@danieldaniels7571]

That was actually a very legitimate answer. I see construction detour signs placed incorrectly more often than not in Phoenix.

[@benj1236]

This made news because it rarely happens.

[@jlw38257]

A truckload of steel pipe rarely loses it's load kil lng the driver of the car behind it.... but would likely see far less coverage if any.

[@GloriaW888]

Wayne cars also block entries into businesses during red lights when a vehicle is waiting to turn into a business parking lot Waymo just stops in the way and don’t leave room for cars to pass through.

[@lloydbingham7961]

Ticket the company