r/Austin • u/Roguecop • Mar 01 '26
Shitpost A Waymo vehicle blocked traffic as first responders raced to the Austin bar last night
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u/p8pes Mar 01 '26
Its use of a hazard signal is a nice touch
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u/smellthebreeze Mar 01 '26
Like, what is it doing?
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u/p8pes Mar 01 '26
it’s projecting territorial authority in BLINKING morse code:
ME RULE ME RULE ME RULE….
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u/letsbreakstuff Mar 01 '26
Why didn't they push it out of the way?
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u/ccache Mar 01 '26
Honestly it's a good question, maybe in the heat of the moment that cop just didn't know what to do.
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u/p8pes Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
show me any reality when a cop would defer as meekly to a human driver here.
i wonder if the possible liability of damaging a $300K google asset keeps them from developing a policy to respond with force.
there should be a designated person at google who is charged as the driver for every Waymo. Is this instance not an arrestable offense?
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u/Background-Suit5717 Mar 01 '26
Qualified immunity would kick in for any first responders. The ambulance could have pushed it out of the way legally speaking.
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u/Radiant-Month-1168 Mar 02 '26
If the cop has to hit the waymo to move it then waymo will be responsible for the damage to the cops car.
It is insane a waymo could even do a uturn like this and block traffic.The crazy part is if there as black guy driving, the cop would have broke the window.
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u/Tallyrandsbreakfast Mar 01 '26
It’s an ambulance, not the police. Did you want them to ram the car with an ambulance? What if airbags went off and now you have injured drivers and a down ambulance also blocking the road. Let’s think before making blanket statements about law enforcement.
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u/p8pes Mar 01 '26
there’s a police car in the video that approaches the waymo and does nothing. I’ve seen valet drivers be more forceful.
Let’s think before making blanket statements about law enforcement.
Let’s think about distorting a comment without watching the entire video.
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u/sxzxnnx Mar 02 '26
He walks up to the car and yells at (it/the control center/who knows) “…Austin Police. I need you to unlock the car so I can move it.” That seems to work because he is able to open the door and get in. But then once he gets in he doesn’t move it. The ambulance is gone by that point so less urgency.
That’s not nothing but we don’t really know if it was the right thing to do or not. What is Waymo’s process for transferring control from the self driving mode to a human? APD and Waymo should have worked that out before they ever turned one loose on the city streets.
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u/p8pes Mar 02 '26
APD and Waymo should have worked that out before they ever turned one loose on the city streets.
large agreement
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u/mp_tx Mar 01 '26
Does nothing? He got out of his car and into the driver seat of the Waymo, probably screaming profanities at some poor operator in the Philippines through the speaker the whole time. Maybe you should watch the whole video.
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u/p8pes Mar 02 '26
ha! i love the squabbling.
nuh-uh —maybe you!
if youre making the phillippines joke it’s likely we both dislike Waymos
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u/Tallyrandsbreakfast Mar 01 '26
Ugh. You’re right. I still think it’s not the cops fault. I bet there will be a protocol for this in the future though. I just don’t like all the “all cops would be combative” stuff. It’s just not true, and it’s harmful to progressive causes.
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u/p8pes Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
thanks (appreciate that) and sure - i’m not for police battery at all - and i have friends who are decent cops and i have friends who have been abused by indecent cops. I’m against our city’s streets being used by Waymos, specifically, though. If theres any policing concern its the high-density video map theyre compiling of our streets, our faces, and behaviors.
Call it sarcasm suggesting they apply force to these surveillance cars that suddenly act helpless.
i share your advocacy to progressive ideas, too
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u/Tallyrandsbreakfast Mar 02 '26
Right on my person! And fuck Waymos. Be safe out there.
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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 Mar 02 '26
Fuck Waymo’s but imagine if this was a Tesla.. probably would have spazzed and caused its own emergency scene downtown.
I really don’t see the point of these automated taxis. It’s not like they’re any cheaper than an Uber (are they?) and it just takes someone’s job. The only real benefit are to the trillion $ companies not having to employ people. It just seems like they fixed a problem that didn’t exist. Maybe if every car on the road was one and it cut down on traffic deaths because they all talk to each other but we’re not even close to that.
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u/Effective_Golf_3311 Mar 02 '26
The cop gets out and tried to figure out how to get it out of the way.
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u/p8pes Mar 02 '26
it’s funny to put the value of the waymo in front of the people in distress
if the officer would have stayed in his car, he could have pushed the waymo by the bumper to clear a path. they are taught numerous techniques and they use them on humans.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn-ISdkmoAg
I didn’t mean to change the subject that the Waymo is at fault, kept help at bay, and shouldnt be there anyways.
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u/Effective_Golf_3311 Mar 02 '26
Yeah, I mean I’ll be honest, this is how I would expect APD to handle this… seek every avenue possible prior to utilizing physical force of any kind.
He accomplished that mission.
Houston and Dallas PD would have just rammed it out of the way.
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u/Wooden-Broccoli-7247 Mar 02 '26
And then what though, have a busted ass car that now a tow truck has to come get and block a street even longer? I’m sure he assumed he could simply get in and move it out of the way, which would have been much more effective than debris from a car wreck blocking the street instead of the car. Not to mention the commotion it would have caused when everyone sees a cop car ramming a car in the middle of the street. It makes much more sense to see if you can simply move it 5 feet than ram it out of commission in the middle of a crisis zone.
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u/uber765 Mar 02 '26
Imagine driving the car remotely and you lose connection with the car, or even just a half second lag. There would be no safe way to remotely drive these unless they were limited to like 3 mph and brake as soon as any ping is lost.
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u/PrickASaurus Mar 01 '26
I mean - he was able to move it further and faster and safer by getting in and telling Waymo support “I’ve got an active shooter and need to move this fucking car.” And within seconds he was in control of the vehicle.
If the Waymo’s support person said no, I’m sure it would’ve just been rammed out of the way.
But he didn’t need to take the risk and push it onto the sidewalk into a crowd of gawkers.
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u/letsbreakstuff Mar 01 '26
He was? When the video ended the car was still blocking
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u/PrickASaurus Mar 01 '26
Longer version of the video (KXAN has it - https://www.kxan.com/video/video-waymo-seen-blocking-first-reponders-during-west-sixth-street-shooting/11566715/) The cop drives it into the garage. This video cuts off as they are walking away. In the longer video the camera pans back to the Waymo.
But you can hear the cop telling, I assume Waymo support, the situation and then he drives it out of the way.
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u/entoaggie Mar 01 '26
When literal seconds can mean the difference between a victim bleeding out or being saved, or stopping a shooter before they unload another clip into a crowd, THIS should not be something first responders have to worry about. This is reason enough to get rid of driverless cars. The novelty has worn off. Let this fad die so that big tech companies stop siphoning even more money out of our community.
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u/PrickASaurus Mar 01 '26
Agreed.
But I like them when they aren’t blocking ambulances. Waymo has never needed to bathe, told me about a conspiracy theory, nor tried to sell me a MLM product.
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u/Riaayo Mar 02 '26
You can tell people you're not interested on public transit, and the more funding public transit has the more people that will be on it which will drastically reduce the bullshit you run into because it will be far more ingrained in polite society that everyone's involved in rather than left as as a last-resort for the desperate and poor.
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u/AnAnnoyedSpectator Mar 02 '26
Unless the missing funding is about security to kick the desperate crazy people off public transport plus jails or asylums to keep them in, more funding will not result in a shift to more general politeness.
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u/NecessaryStaff9544 Mar 02 '26
The presence of ear buds and staring out the window will solve this in your human ride shares.
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u/athnica Mar 01 '26
Driverless cars will still save lives in the long run. It's not just a fad.
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u/Riaayo Mar 02 '26
Driverless cars will still save lives in the long run.
No they won't, but you can be sure you suddenly won't have anybody to sue when they get in a wreck with you.
But you know what does save lives? Public transit. And gosh it's actually sustainable and gets people around efficiently. Imagine that.
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u/athnica Mar 02 '26
They do save lives, that's simply a reality. There are several stats showing this.
And believe me, I'm a huge fan of public transit. But driverless cars can fill in the gaps where public transit doesn't work as well. They're not mutually exclusive.
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u/Riaayo Mar 02 '26
Normal ass cars people own or rent can fill in those gaps, and with less people on the road there's less potential for accidents.
The problem is we are car dependent and in a society where people are shoved into cars when they're exhausted getting to or from work. Our infrastructure is designed like fucking highways which makes people speed rather than traffic calming that slows people down. We have unsafe infrastructure so pedestrians and cyclists get hit if anyone even bothers to try and do either in the first place.
"A driverless car is safer than a car with a human driver", well public transit is safer than both and more sustainable. And then those rare cases where someone needs a care they can, in fact, just drive the damn thing themselves. If they can't then they don't need a license, but oh what luck they'd live in a world where they're not car dependent and that isn't an economic/social death sentence.
Driverless cars are dystopia shit, and there's not a single person pushing for driverless cars that won't use every cent from it to fight you ever getting public transit. They have a financial interest in you being completely dependent on their product. They also have an interest in you never owning your own car again and being pushed off the roads entirely.
Stop ceding everything to massive corporations PLEASE. This is an unnecessary "answer" to a problem countless better solutions actually help solve in sustainable ways.
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u/Sex4Vespene Mar 01 '26
Agreed. On the whole, even if we factor incidents like this, there will probably be overall less fatalities from using driverless cars. Now that said, I will admit that it fucking sucks being the person who is given as sacrifice. It’s like a modified version of the train problem, where you HAVE to pick whether the train runs over 1 person or 10 people. Of course you pick the 1 person. But it does suck for that one person, because they wouldn’t have died otherwise. Unfortunately/fortunately, it’s in the best interest for all of us on average to pick the choices with less overall fatalities, even if we happen to be the unlucky one who ends up suffering from it.
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u/NecessaryStaff9544 Mar 02 '26
This is how a considerable amount of war is justified.
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u/Sex4Vespene Mar 02 '26
Trying to make this into some metaphor about war is absurd.
I could make the same point about mandatory seatbelts. Almost certainly, at least one person has died because of wearing a seatbelt. But of course, countless more people have survived things because of seatbelts. So we’ve all agreed that having to wear one is the rule. I’m talking about general public safety measures here you lunatic.
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u/Hosedragger5 Mar 02 '26
Oh don’t worry, about once a shift a human driver performs far worse than this Waymo.
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u/NinjaWrapper Mar 02 '26
When did he move it? The cop arrived at the vehicle at 0:40 and the vehicle never moves after that. Are we watching the same thing?
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u/PrickASaurus Mar 02 '26
Scroll down. Someone else asked the same thing. Longer… unedited / less edited version on kxan.
Edit- or scroll up?? Anyway, I posted it.
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u/p8pes Mar 01 '26
just to riff on many options: ambulances have axes and the fire dept can smash out a car window to get to a blocked hydrant. I think a cop could reasonably tazer the charge port to terminate the waymo.
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u/Shopworn_Soul Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
tazer the charge port to terminate the waymo.
Wait you don't really think that is a useful or functional thing to do, right? Like, you're just kidding?
Edit: I'm not arguing against abusing the Waymo to get it to move, that is totally cool. I am questioning how exactly you think tasers or electric cars work.
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u/p8pes Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
I’m kidding, yes, but many people have had their cars ruined by a cop justifying them blocking an emergency response.
That Waymos still dont defer to sirens or honking is pure arrogance now on the part of its developers.
Police should be able to have a signal distributor in their car that makes a Waymo find an urgent means of parking.
The tazer response (as consequence) might be a funny way to motivate the developers to add audio response to their 29 camera surveillance system.
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u/Lonely-Blueberry-637 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
I second this…kinda. Im totally onboard with some major action as breaking a window in a vehicle to get a firehose through is a bit much so some kind of equal extravagances would be called for. I was thinking a “gentle” physical escort from a brush guard of just about any of the emergency responder vehicles
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u/Riaayo Mar 02 '26
Cops know they can't go damaging the property of rich people / corporations.
Get this dangerous car-dependent crap off the roads.
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u/adcl Mar 02 '26
I would have pushed that car out of the way, that big bumper on the ambulance is perfect for scenarios like this. No need to ram, just roll into it and push it out of the way, then APD can ticket it for failure to yield to emergency vehicles.
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u/Medical_Ad_8368 Mar 02 '26
Because there is nothing from keeping the Waymo vehicle from reversing. Just like you saw it do in the beginning of this video.
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u/aretooamnot Mar 01 '26
They have push bars on the front of that ambulance for good reason. That was the time to use them.
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u/WhiteLycan2020 Mar 01 '26
Why didn’t the cops ram it out of the way?
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u/ThroneOfTaters Mar 01 '26
It was at a difficult angle and there's an enormous amount of money behind Waymo.
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u/Valus_ Mar 01 '26
regardless of it not moving i don’t get HOW or WHY it got into that exact position on the road anyways. that’s my main question.
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u/ccache Mar 01 '26
Seen it many times, almost ran into one pulled out backwards on to 6th and turned wrong way(into traffic). These things are trash.
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u/Disastrous_Tour1323 Mar 01 '26
I might get downvoted for expressing my feelings but whatever. I hate seeing my coworkers being ridiculed for simply doing the right thing and moving on with their work. I’ve been abused and called an idiot on here for stating our reality. I’m a paramedic. We will NOT attempt to move or hit a vehicle, person, or object to go to a call or transport a patient. Especially if there’s an option for an alternate route. People cut us off, don’t move, flick us off, and generally don’t regard us even with our lights and sirens on. Is it frustrating? Absolutely. Do we like it? Hell no. But getting in trouble or under investigation for a collision or possibly causing unnecessary harm simply isn’t worth it. I know this was high profile, tragic, and absolutely dire. But you have to remember, we live this everyday and this is not the first time a vehicle, object, or person has gotten in this paramedic or EMTs way and it won’t be the last. Don’t even get me started on the amount of verbal abuse and assaults we deal with. This is a very hard job and we are under constant scrutiny but I promise you we try and do our very best every day. So please do us a favor next time you see us out on the streets and give us some grace.
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u/rarzwon Mar 01 '26
As someone who works with the public, I understand it's a rougher job than anyone realizes and I can't blame you for making tough judgement calls, even when people don't understand the logic behind them.
Stay safe out there, friend.
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u/Sharin_the_Groove Mar 02 '26
I also work with the public and agree. I genuinely wish more people worked in the public sector more often. They don't understand just how difficult it can be.
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u/Ok-Character-7756 Mar 01 '26
Real life is not an action movie. Sounds like you act cool calm and collected in the majority of situations which is definitely a good thing.
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u/Linduh777 Mar 01 '26
No one was blaming the emts, I see them blaming the cop for trying to drive the vehicle versus pushing it with its patrol unit.
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u/camillerrrr Mar 01 '26
No one was bashing the EMTs broski
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u/Whatcanyado420 Mar 01 '26 edited May 07 '26
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u/RhinoKeepr Mar 02 '26
Thanks for your service. paramedics do hard hard work. Done ridealongs in the past.
Post this a few min ago: I've seen hotel valets manage these things. They go to a back corner (or safest spot) and put their hand over the sensor (usually still, some of them wave it) till the vehicle starts moving. Essentially what they are doing is alerting a human monitor (recently stated as likely in the Philippines, so not licensed American drivers) to manually get the car moving when its confused.
THIS SHOULD BE KNOWLEDGE SHARED with first responders I guess?! Who knows what critical time could have been lost because this thing doesn't know how to get out of the damn way.
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u/Jeaglera Mar 02 '26
The AFD chief is putting officers and drivers under a one year probation for collisions that will result in firing if a second incident occurs. Not sure it would legally hold up but that hasn’t stopped him before. People here think we can just fuck cars up like we work in nyc where we can get away with that shit
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u/LongIslandLAG Mar 01 '26
Will Waymo be held responsible for impeding emergency responders?
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u/HTC864 Mar 02 '26
Held responsible how?
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u/DR-SNICKEL Mar 02 '26
fine them and regulate there access to roads if there not able to react to emergency vehicles. simple stuff like that
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u/HTC864 Mar 02 '26
Access to roads is already regulated and their use is dictated by the agreement with the city. This car is reacting to emergency vehicles. There's one in front of it and one behind it, and it's programmed to try to freeze and try to go another route. But there's nowhere for it to go.
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u/xeen313 Mar 01 '26
Fine them big time. Hopefully they'll fix the dumb stuff or get rid of the project all together
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u/AvailableReporter484 Mar 01 '26
They need to be held legally accountable out the ass. And not one of these limp dick corporate fines that doesn’t hurt the in the slightest and just gets passed on to the customer as an inexplicable “maintenance fee.”
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u/failure_engineer Mar 01 '26
This makes me think that these autonomous cars could be hacked to create roadblocks during some kind of organized attack.
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus Mar 01 '26
The sci-fi book Daemon has this happen. Dozens of autonomous vehicles are hacked and swarm attack authorities while the bad guy gets away. The bad guy just keeps having cars from all over the city flock around his vehicle to protect his and suicide crash themselves into the cops.
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u/wbrd Mar 02 '26
This has happened. Lots of them were ordered to the same place and they all got stuck. I believe it was in SF.
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u/superhash Mar 02 '26
That's why a lot people make a big fuss about just how much they can remotely control. Waymo is very careful with their words in their marketing material, but they are also very clear that a remote operater can not do things like press the gas/brake or turn the wheel.
A pretty loose interpretation of that could mean that it is entirely possible to do those things remotely, just that the people they employ as CSR "operators" are not allowed to do so. They say the operators are allowed to make suggestions to the car about things like "go here" or "turn around" but that the car itself is always the final say in what it does.
I will not ride in any of these autonomous cars until it is outright proven that nobody, no computer, nothing can control the car's inputs remotely.
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u/anuthiel Mar 01 '26
any survivors should sue the shit out of them
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u/Specialist_Medium283 Mar 01 '26
It’s the law to get out of the way for emergency vehicles, right? So what are the consequences for just blocking an emergency vehicle?
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u/ccache Mar 01 '26
But But they're safer than average driver!
I wish that cop would've just rammed it out of the way and told waymo to go fuck themselves.
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u/Sex4Vespene Mar 01 '26
I mean, I think it’s a slightly modified version of the train problem. If we factor in the added deaths from them fucking up emergency services, do they still result in less deaths overall, versus human drivers who would respond better, but also cause more wrecks? I don’t really know the numbers, but that is what we have to consider. That said, I do think there are improvements that could be done around emergency services. Maybe have some kind of law enforcement override that they all get access to,
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u/mybahaiusername Mar 02 '26
Self driving tech just isn't there. It is like 70% of the way there, but we're still not ready for 100% human-less cars.
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u/CloudFuneral Mar 01 '26
Maybe I'm too woke, but AI is going to cause a lot more people to lose their life. One way or another.
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u/TownLakeTrillOG Mar 01 '26
Aren’t they supposed to have people who remotely drive them in situations like this
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u/maikerukonare Mar 01 '26
When the cop eventually got in the driver seat near the end of the video, I wonder if he was able to communicate with a remote operator? It seemed it wouldn't let him drive it; I feel like local first responders should probably be given an override code to commandeer driverless vehicles in their region, in the case of emergencies like this. Someone needs to be able to take control of and get the multiple thousands of pounds obstacles out of the way.
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u/PrickASaurus Mar 01 '26
You can hear him on the video. Like 23 sec left in the video he says something like, “we’ve got an active shooter and I need to move this fucking car”
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u/NoAsspirations Mar 01 '26
The video cuts off but he does drive it away a couple seconds later. He was talking through the window for a while so I assume he was talking with the remote operator.
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u/maikerukonare Mar 01 '26
Oh that's great! Hopefully after situations like these, Waymo can figure out how to streamline that process for first responders 👍
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u/ccache Mar 01 '26
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When the cop eventually got in the driver seat near the end of the video, I wonder if he was able to communicate with a remote operator? It seemed it wouldn't let him drive it; I feel like local first responders should probably be given an override code"Not acceptable time wise in life or death situations.
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u/MavFan1812 Mar 01 '26
I feel like giving the police power to take control of Waymos is probably not necessary to prevent these types of things from occurring in the future. All that really needs to happen is for Waymo to be way more proactive about monitoring stuck vehicles. If a vehicle gets stuck for more than 20 seconds in a non-normal situation, a human driver should get tagged in to figure it out. It would probably also make sense to do that when it detects emergency vehicles in the area.
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u/entoaggie Mar 01 '26
At the VERY least, there should be a way to put it into neutral, and in doing so, switch to manual steering.
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u/ccache Mar 01 '26
That's what I've heard too, in a situation like this (EMS/Police alert) someone should be alerted immediately so it can be moved out of the way. But we get to be guinea pigs, until all this stuff is eventually sorted out if ever. Strange to me how many are happy and fine with that. Not that it matters, not enough would stand up to make a change if the will to do so was even there. It's state approved anyway, don't think the city has much of a say if at all.
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u/STRUGGLING_TO_REMAIN Mar 01 '26
This may have been an accident, but it proves how dangerous this tech is. Now imagine a fleet of them coordinating road closures.
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u/Aggravating-Object88 Mar 01 '26
Why was a Waymo sitting sideways in the middle of the street in the first place??
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u/National-Ad8416 Mar 02 '26
You don't even need incidents like this to say what needs to be said over and over again.....FUCK Waymo
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u/RhinoKeepr Mar 02 '26
I've seen hotel valets manage these things. They go to a back corner and put their hand over the sensor (usually still, some of them wave it) till the vehicle starts moving. Essentially what they are doing is alerting a human monitor (recently stated as likely in the Philippines) to manually get the car moving when its confused.
THIS SHOULD BE KNOWLEDGE SHARED with first responders. Who knows what critical time could have been lost because this thing doesn't know how to get out of the damn way.
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u/RatioProper5935 Mar 01 '26
Ambulance driver should have just pushed it out of the way.
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u/Disastrous_Tour1323 Mar 01 '26
I’m a paramedic. Responding to a call or transporting code 3 (lights & sirens) doesn’t give us the ok to get in a fleet collision. Even in a high profile situation like last night. We can and will get written up for doing something like that. Ask me how I know. Better to just reverse and find a better path - I mean we already navigate for drivers who dont move everyday.
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u/Standard_Gap4944 Mar 01 '26
Cop here. Same reasoning. We can’t just use our push bars to ram things. Seems like they did what they could at the time and got it moved eventually. It sucks there’s no way to override those vehicles in situations like this.
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u/Notgonnadoxme Mar 02 '26
Also a paramedic, the other problem here is the crew has no way of knowing what gear the waymo is in or how the wheels are turned. Using the unit to push the waymo could cause it to go in any number of directions, including the surrounding crowd or even further onto the roadway. It's not as simple as "just ram it!" when you're in the tight quarters and high traffic of downtown.
Also I hate these fucking things, they've cut me off so many times while driving code that I'm seriously tempted to just get the fleet paperwork over with to make a point.
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u/amyk78759 Mar 01 '26
Ya....the Waymo thing here in Austin has become a PIA. Wish they'd experiment somewhere else.
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u/Doodle-Cactus Mar 01 '26
Need to have a dedicated Waymo forklift vehicle. Also they should be super punished for this. Probably slap on the wrist at best though.
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u/Angel1571 Mar 01 '26
Yeah, but how long is it going to take to get to the scene? By that point it might as well find an alternate route.
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u/Belgrifex Mar 01 '26
Waymos in Austin have been doing this shit more and more. I don't know what they did but they're unusable at this point the last time I used one it tried to drop me off in the middle of fucking traffic. Insane
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u/Kalinoz Mar 01 '26
Let's try this again. In this case, hit the 500k Jag with fancy lights. Move it the hell out of the way.
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u/lFightForTheUsers Mar 02 '26
At least a horse will move if you slap it on the ass. Out of curiosity what would happen if someone walked up behind and did the same thing?
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Mar 01 '26
But everyone on this sub hails Waymo
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u/blacbird Mar 01 '26
I’m convinced that there are bots just waiting for the word “Waymo“ to pop out and say “well statistically, they are better than people….”
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u/ablx Mar 01 '26
they aren't bots, just people that hate Elon so much they are all-in on Waymo (vs Tesla) despite its many flaws.
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Mar 01 '26
Ask a 20 year old woman if they feel safer alone in an uber or in a Waymo
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u/Much_Capital_967 Mar 02 '26
A point that a majority of people won’t get at all. Yet it’s a great point.
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Mar 01 '26
Statistically I'm sure that 3 dead and 16 injured is more than what you're bringing forth for an argument.
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u/Mindless-Concept8010 Mar 01 '26
They run over kids exiting school buses, and block emergency responders. What in the actual fuck? We have to have licenses but robots don’t? That’s bullshit.
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u/Terminal_Lucridity Mar 02 '26
They should have just plowed through it. These driverless taxis are a blight and not safe. This is a prime example.
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u/lipp79 Mar 02 '26
I wonder if the emergency lights coming from each direction are what confused it.
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u/DoBronx2144 Mar 02 '26
Time to tar and feather whoever is propping all these dumb ideas out and run them out of this town
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u/Misophonic4000 Mar 01 '26
The thing is the car was moving out of the way super (too) cautiously but as soon as the cop got close, it wasn't going to go anywhere with him standing right there, for his safety. So robots need to get better, but personel also needs better training on how to deal with them. In this case, the car was seconds from making that turn and then pulling to the side. Unfortunate situation.
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u/ClutchDude Mar 02 '26
Hi folks - we're locking this thread and moving discussion here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1ric2jc/what_is_known_about_ndiaga_diagne_w_6th_street/
We'd prefer to not have multiple threads, some of which are older, getting comments for review all night.