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The point of that often quoted ethical dilemma is that a human driver can't choose at all. With driverless cars at one point someone has to make a deliberate de
by germanier 11y ago
The point of that often quoted ethical dilemma is that a human driver can't choose at all. With driverless cars at one point someone has to make a deliberate decision on how to act in these situations. Not in a split-second but rather in a long process. This results in different ethical considerations.
Sure, a human driver doesn't take any of the relevant factors into account. But a driverless car does and that's the difference.
- jfoster 11y agoIt's usually presented as a "problem" with autonomous vehicles.
- mikeash 11y agoThat's my point. People's expectations for driverless cars are vastly higher for no particularly good reason. Sure, a driverless car could potentially do a lot better than a human, but if it merely does as well as a human then it's already good enough here. You can slice the gordian knot of the ethical dilemma by saying "when presented with two bad choices, we'll pick whichever one is closer to the car's path" and it's fine. But people talk about it as a difficult problem to overcome because they're unwilling to accept human-level performance.