RE: Should driverless cars kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian?
November 17, 2015 at 8:00 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2015 at 8:07 am by Anomalocaris.)
(November 16, 2015 at 8:23 pm)abaris Wrote: Driverless cars are the idiocy of the decade. I certainly hope, we don't reach the point of moving all responsibility to computers and software. Not even planes go as far. The pilot can always interfere.
Yes, human error may be responsible for a lot of shit, but computers aren't infallible either.
I believe FAA study suggests if well trained human pilots are encouraged to override automatic systems on commercial jetliners whenever they feel the computer has made an error, they are 15 times more likely to override a correct computer decision and replace it with a faulty one than overriding a faulty computer decision and replace it with a correct one. Furthermore, the ratio gets even worse during inflight emergencies.