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MIT Moral Machine
- grahamel 10y agoI don't always understand the focus on this. It's not something people are tested on when learning to drive and not something assessed on your driving test. How should self drive cars react to this? It should be programmed to not get into the situation in the first place. We should be developing systems that continually monitor vehicles for faults - kind of like an on-going MOT - that can react to the first signs of something going wrong, rather than waiting for a yearly test. This will stop the breaks failing/accelerator stuck situations more often than not. Should the car plough into the people or the obstacle? Well it should be safe enough to crash and to cause serious harm to the occupants - which is something Tesla have put a lot of work into - and also not accelerate towards points in the road that can change suddenly. Guy stumbling along the side of the road? Drive as if he'll fall into the road at any moment. Road ahead partly blocked? Drive as if the whole road could suddenly get blocked, and so on. Driving is all about reading the road and being aware of what can change around you, which is what self drive cars can and should be doing better than people.
- jwalton 10y agoYeah, I like that this self driving car is advanced enough to know whether or not the person it's about to run over is fit, or a criminal, but it can't work out that it should slow down before running into a concrete barrier in the same lane it is in. (And how does this moral car know so much about the personal lives of the people it's murdering, when I can't even get my car to consistently play music from my phone?)