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points by pton_xd 2 days ago | 0 comments

Eventually your car will autonomously pull over to the side of the road, lock the doors, and instruct you to wait patiently for the arriving officer. Please return your hands to the steering wheel.

[–] morkalork 2 days ago

Sir, can you put your hands in the yellow circles, please?

[–] nilamo 2 days ago

It'll just redirect you directly to a holding cell intake. Dangerous drivers shouldn't be left on the road.

[–] pessimizer 2 days ago

Or it will just park in the lot behind the jail, after safety legislation is passed that requires all new cars to double as jail cells.

Your hearing will be done through Android Auto/CarPlay directly with GPT-17.2 StellarumThalamum.

[–] kibwen 2 days ago

That will require too much parking capacity. Cheaper to just instruct the cars to lock the doors and drive directly into the ocean.

[–] gnabgib 2 days ago

Waymo already does this.. well it doesn't stop and wait, it's proactive.

Waymo reports teen riders for bad behavior and delivers them to the police (60 points, 1 month ago, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824010

[–] theamk 2 days ago

Those "teen riders" were shooting toy guns at the passer-by.

As someone who walks on the streets / uses public transport, Waymo was 100% in the right there. Wish all taxi services were like that.

[–] ralphington 2 days ago

Imo, you're focusing on the anecdote, rather than the key question: who decides what is an acceptable reason?

[–] ButlerianJihad 2 days ago

> what is an acceptable reason

"Acceptable reason" for what?

The headline and anecdote do not match.

All the Waymo Driver did was pull over and wait for the Support Team and the law enforcement response. It was in a commercial parking lot. It did not "deliver them to the police". It did not lock the doors. The children would have been free to exit after pulling over. The car simply refused to take them all the way to their destination.

Seeing that they were illegally drinking alcohol as underage minors, and illegally targeting innocent bystanders with missiles, what sort of acceptable reason do you need to contact Support, and thereby have law enforcement involved? I think it was a perfectly acceptable reason for the Waymo Driver to refuse service to these customers who had broken their policies.

[–] cucumber3732842 2 days ago

The sad part is I can already imagine the useful idiots hand wringing in the comments about how it's such a travesty that we allow old cars that don't do that on the road and we need to "incentivize" those people to behave right with punitive tax policy.

[–] esalman 2 days ago

And Tesla will be the pioneer.