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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality People building autonomous cars don't actually care. Stay o
by shpx 10y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
People building autonomous cars don't actually care. Stay on the road, if unavoidable obstacle detected, break.
Someone rebranded the trolley "problem". This has nothing to do with real engineering.
- theemathas 10y agoThis is supposed to be a variant of the trolley problem.
- im4w1l 10y agoThe point is that the theoretical problem, interesting as it may be, doesn't matter that much in practice. The marginal utility you could get by fine-tuning the trade off is low. It's another type of bike-shedding essentially.