RE: Should driverless cars kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian?
November 17, 2015 at 1:17 am
The car will be programmed to do one thing in constant bearing, decreasing range. Minimize impact velocity. Swerving would take too many other things into account, including loss of control of the vehicle. They will not have these types of death decision matrices in the code. That is a PR nightmare.
The real question for the pilotless plane or driverless car scenario is if the number of crashes decreases significantly enough, will the public tolerate inescapable scenarios?
In other words, if there is a 50% decrease in motor vehicle deaths every year, and a black ice 10 car pileup happens with 3 deaths because of driverless cars, will the company get hammered with the civil suits? My guess is yes, and that would mean that unless one company beats all of the others to the punch, it's probably not going to happen mainstream.
The real question for the pilotless plane or driverless car scenario is if the number of crashes decreases significantly enough, will the public tolerate inescapable scenarios?
In other words, if there is a 50% decrease in motor vehicle deaths every year, and a black ice 10 car pileup happens with 3 deaths because of driverless cars, will the company get hammered with the civil suits? My guess is yes, and that would mean that unless one company beats all of the others to the punch, it's probably not going to happen mainstream.
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