Waymo got pulled over. What happens next in Phoenix?

&quot;unable to issue citation to computer&quot; is about the stupidest and laziest police response I have ever heard. I am beyond upset about this. It&#x27;s obvious they could issue a citation and send it to the address on the registration of the car, which is certainly Waymo or a company that could forward it to Waymo.<p>If my parked car gets a ticket, they put it on the windshield. It&#x27;s not some stupid response like &quot;unable to issue citation to car with no one in it.&quot; Since the window was open, they could also tape it on the dash or put it on the driver&#x27;s seat.<p>There is no reason why Waymo should not get a citation and be forced to appear in court to explain themselves, just like everyone else. That is why the courts exist. But lazy cops seem to prevent this from happening.

I&#x27;m fairly skeptical on driverless cars but it&#x27;s hard to say what the deal is here - I see plenty of humans end up in the wrong lane around construction zones, too. Obviously we want these things to be better than humans, but it&#x27;d be nice to know if this was just the sort of mistake we see humans commonly make here, or if it was egregious.<p>Dashcam footage of what the car actually did would be pretty helpful in understanding what actually happened.

Unless I missed something, there&#x27;s no clarity in the article about whether or not Waymo eventually got issued a citation. But I also couldn&#x27;t watch the full video without being bombarded by ads and audio that started running headless in the background.

Tickets are supposed to be a deterrent to violating traffic laws. For a corporation though, even a big ticket is just a drop in the bucket. Laws will need to be updated if these things are allowed to be on the streets.

The fundamental problem of AI cars--they have a set of rules rather than common sense. They will fare far worse than humans when given impossible directions.

How is the in-car audio call between Waymo and the police initiated? I would want it to automatically initiate shortly after being pulled over. That would be easiest for emergency services. It would also assure for the passenger and be a way to give the passenger instructions, if needed. The downside would be cost to Waymo to staff a potentially unnecessary call.

Can’t wait for the first felony&#x2F;high risk stop executed against a waymo, should lead to some good body cam footage (and hopefully nobody gets shot)