RE: Should driverless cars kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian?
November 17, 2015 at 8:15 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2015 at 8:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm onboard with Hal, and I can't wait for him to be onboard with me. There are very few situations that I can think of, relating to the operation of heavy equipment, that a computer isn't better suited for than a human being, or at least on par with a human being. The programmers job is difficult, no doubt. Those same decisions play out in our own minds when we find ourselves in an auto accident (or near one). We tend to favor ourselves, but every so often....eh?
I don't see us giving people who hit other vehicles while trying to avoid dying due to some failure or unforseen event that much shit. People swerve to avoid getting hit by semis and end up hitting other cars with some regularity. I'd hope we would extend the same courtesy to the programmers of automatic vehicles.
I don't see us giving people who hit other vehicles while trying to avoid dying due to some failure or unforseen event that much shit. People swerve to avoid getting hit by semis and end up hitting other cars with some regularity. I'd hope we would extend the same courtesy to the programmers of automatic vehicles.
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