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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
- bsimpson 11y agoI don't feel great about someone being able to force a self-driving car to kill the owner by jaywalking. Then again, hopefully cars aren't going fast enough to kill the owner in places where people often jaywalk.
- DanBC 11y agoThe A417 between Cirencester and Cheltenham is a dual carriageway that ha pedestrian footpaths across it. Terrifying. Imagine driving at 70mph toward this: 350 yard warning: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8078399,-2.0618748,3a,75y,167.44h,96.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKTMpYzvV-A1YmgE5UK7BAw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8078399,-2.0618748,3a,75y,... actual crossing: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8051623,-2.0595278,3a,75y,167.44h,96.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saNdFJWBbToa05d8ajkXiXA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8051623,-2.0595278,3a,75y,... That's I think 10 seconds for drivers travelling at 70 mph. (Not sure what's going on here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8136298,-2.0688216,3a,75y,148.67h,59.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbQCbbwJ2upiqQW-CJm_11g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8136298,-2.0688216,3a,75y,...
- maxerickson 11y agoDoes that arise because the path is a right of way?
- DanBC 11y agoYes. I think it's part of the Cotswold way, perhaps. There are a few more like that.
- bsimpson 11y agoThat's terrifying.
- maxerickson 11y agoYour self driving car is driving at incredible speed along a cliff. A mother hurls her baby into the path of the car. What should the car do? Oh wait, that's stupid. The incredible sophistication that is meant to be put to the question of which humans to kill can simply be put to the question of what speed is safe for all the humans present in the sensor envelope and then you probably end up where reasonable people call any remaining incidents impossible situations (like a baby being hurled in front of the car from some unseen location).