RE: Should driverless cars kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian?
November 16, 2015 at 8:37 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 8:37 pm by IATIA.)
(November 16, 2015 at 8:25 pm)Napoléon Wrote: The problem with this scenario is it assumes the car has a brain and can 'choose' to do something.
It is not the car, but rather the dilemma presented to the programmers. With 'fuzzy logic' and significantly better AI, I think the car will be able to make to make a 'good' choice perhaps in another 20-50 years. As albaris says, "Driverless cars are the idiocy of the decade", but they are here now and the question is how the decision making process (that cannot even spell check properly) will be employed.
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