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This is why autonomous cars are making their way into the market, despite the fact that many worried that they'd get tied up in regulatory, moral, or technical

• ChuckMcM 10y ago
  Ok, perhaps I am misreading this, are you implying that "they"[1] are pushing self driving cars in order to give the public confidence that machines can be trusted with life or death decisions? The actual goal being to make it possible to deploy weapon systems that will decide on their own when to kill without the public disbelieving their assurances that the machines will make the correct decisions? That would be a pretty deep game if so. [1] The forces of evil that really run things
  • Jtsummers 10y ago
    Or, perhaps, they mean the technology needed for self-driving cars is also the essential technology for a more automated war machine. The military-industrial complex, then, has a vested interest in this technology developing (see various DARPA challenges in the field of self-driving vehicles).
    • sqeaky 10y ago
      I just read it as both groups have a similar mindset. Each thinks they can get short term gains, so they will. I disagree with the assertion that either is fundamentally bad though. Cars are the most lethal thing in the western world (unless you count natural causes like cancer or heart failure), even if the first generation of self driving cars kills a hug number of people it will be a platform for building safer cars in the future. Autonomous weapons there is room for debate there, even I think it reduce overall human suffering and death.