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posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 31 2016, @06:16PM   Printer-friendly
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: 3, Interesting) by physicsmajor on Monday October 31 2016, @07:19PM

    by physicsmajor (1471) on Monday October 31 2016, @07:19PM (#420999)

    That isn't the necessary conclusion.

    Have you read the article? Because most of these are convoluted scenarios where multiple things happen, and fixing it would involve jeopardizing someone or something else. The good news is that these systems react much better and faster than humans even can, so you remove an entire class of crashes (rear-ends, in particular).

    Acting in self-preservation doesn't mean the goal is barreling through everything. It means that the system will never swerve off the road or otherwise endanger its occupants in order to prevent something it doesn't know is even a problem.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01 2016, @12:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01 2016, @12:44AM (#421095)

    That isn't the necessary conclusion.

    It wasn't a conclusion at all; it was a joke.