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on Monday October 31 2016, @06:16PM
from the explosions-killing-everybody-isn't-a-choice dept.
from the explosions-killing-everybody-isn't-a-choice dept.
Researchers at MIT have put together a pictorial survey http://moralmachine.mit.edu/ -- if the self-driving car loses its brakes, should it go straight or turn? Various scenarios are presented with either occupants or pedestrians dying, and there are a variety of peds in the road from strollers to thieves, even pets.
This AC found that I quickly began to develop my own simplistic criteria and the decisions got easier the further I went in the survey.
While the survey is very much idealized, it may have just enough complexity to give some useful results?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @07:07PM
Cars have lots of built in safety mechanisms, better for the car to avoid pedestrians and do its best to save the passengers within that parameter. Networked vehicles should not be allowed. We should work on better mass transit systems, which could include point to point self driving cars.
One fix for unemployment would be to create a massive taxi industry as a type of public transport initiative. I would totally be a professional driver for a while if it paid decently.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @07:13PM
I don't think this is what you meant regarding networked, but self-driving cars should absolutely be networked together so that they can communicate with one another. Why rely on optical sensors to detect what nearby cars are doing when you can have those cars tell you what they are going to do before they do it?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @07:28PM
Because a networked vehicle can be hacked, fed false signals, even mess up actual signals and get ghost data. Someone could set up a jammer around any major intersection / merging zone and really screw things up.
Once the cars can outperform humans with purely optical / sensor data I will be OK with them being used on regular well maintained roads. Dirt roads? Poor signage? Bad lane markers? AI CAR NOT ALLOWED!!!
The success rate of human drivers is actually pretty phenomenal given the number of vehicles on the road at any given time, and the number of crazy situations that occur.