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It seems like there's a pretty simple solution to this, based on the definition of "ownership" that so many products are trending towards lately: you don't own
by notatoad 11y ago
It seems like there's a pretty simple solution to this, based on the definition of "ownership" that so many products are trending towards lately: you don't own the car. Even if you've technically purchased it outright, all you really have is a perpetual and transferable license to use a car that's really owned by google. The car has a responsibility toward its true owner - google - to do the least damage to their reputation and their company, so if it has to choose between killing its occupant or killing four other potential google customers, it's going to choose the occupant.
- airza 11y agoI don't think that solution is simple since humans are INCREDIBLY squicky about making this exact decision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem).
- Steko 11y agoThis just sidesteps the question because Google won't be the only manufacturer. If Toyota's self driving car and Google's self driving car are headed into a collision and Google's AI says "kill Googlecar occupant" and Toyota's AI says "kill Googlecar occupant" then no one's going to buy licenses to drive Googlecars.
- breatheoften 11y agoBut what if it's Larry or Sergei in the car? Should the algorithm take that into account?