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Driving robots among us who can "decide" to kill has the maximum PR potential for fear and loathing. It is a bit like terrorism, it is a lot unsafer to step in
by rdtsc 10y ago
Driving robots among us who can "decide" to kill has the maximum PR potential for fear and loathing.
It is a bit like terrorism, it is a lot unsafer to step in a wet shower in the morning or well, drive to work, than say getting killed by a terrorist yet look at the wars, waste, money, time spent talking about it.
- stale2002 10y agoThey don't decide to kill anyone. The trolley problem would never happen in real life. In all situations, the safe thing to do in an emergency is to slam on the breaks, and do avoidance, maybe. As well as don't get into these emergency situations in the first place.
- rdtsc 10y ago> They don't decide to kill anyone. Now we just have to convince everyone of that.
- stale2002 10y agoWe don't have to convince everyone. We just have to convince a couple states or countries. These states can be the test run of the technology, and the data they get will prove things to be safer.
- jcranmer 10y ago> In all situations, the safe thing to do in an emergency is to slam on the breaks, and do avoidance, maybe. As well as don't get into these emergency situations in the first place. Traveling at 50mph on an interstate in dense, almost no-visibility fog. Slamming on the breaks is going to create a 50-car pileup with at least two or three fatalities. You might say it's not safe to be driving that fast in those conditions, and you're probably right, but everyone else is, and driving significantly below the going rate is equally dangerous.