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cmn32480
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: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday October 31 2016, @07:26PM
Magic cars can share the road with non-magic cars: they just have to emulate them.
If your employer fires you for not showing up for work when most of the City is shut down, they are probably being an asshole. (Unless you are a first (or second) responder: then "magic cars" that always obey the speed-limit may not be for you.)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 01 2016, @11:37AM
If your employer fires you for not showing up for work when most of the City is shut down, they are probably being an asshole
I guess we need magic employers too? May as well as for a magic president of the united states while we're at it.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday November 01 2016, @05:07PM
If most of the city is shut down, you won't be the only person late, so they'll have to fire, rehire, and retrain a significant portion of their workforce. Any company stupid enough to do that is going to go bankrupt pretty quickly.
It's only a problem for early adopters, and if you are valuable enough to be paid enough to afford one of the early production "magic cars" then your boss isn't gonna fire you for showing up a bit late -- in fact, you probably ARE the boss.