RE: Should driverless cars kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian?
November 17, 2015 at 3:02 am
(November 17, 2015 at 2:55 am)RaphielDrake Wrote:What I mean is, a car is not something they would program to reason.(November 17, 2015 at 2:35 am)heatiosrs Wrote: Very true, but based on these responses we should probably work on making the cars safe in order to not have to deal with a situation like this one.
Likely, in all honesty, the car would go off the cliff well before hitting the human, you're not going to program a car with ability to reason, and I think death will not even be an option, so if death happens, it will most likely be as accident(passenger).
To an extent we can actually program machines to reason, its just usually not as abstract as our ability to do so. A binary system can creates all kinds of checks and balances that would allow it to do so. As the checks and balances get more in-depth, more complex and more varied we may actually verge on creating a consciousness that rivals, if not surpasses, ours.
The technology necessary for that is so long down the road, and would cost so much, there are much better things to use it for.
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