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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @07:15PM
I think you just pointed out why these systems should not be widespread, and should operate in restricted environments. No freeway use is a big one.
Now driver assist tech that does not involve steering (except perhaps for dampening over compensations) sound fine to me.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday October 31 2016, @07:39PM
Wat?
The current systems are designed work on freeways because vehicle interactions are deliberately limited.
Lower speed residential streets are actually the harder problem.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday October 31 2016, @10:58PM