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None of these contrived scenarios compares to the rate at which humans simply fail to stop when they should have stopped. I don't know anyone who got into or w
by sbov 9y ago
None of these contrived scenarios compares to the rate at which humans simply fail to stop when they should have stopped. I don't know anyone who got into or was rescued from an accident by pulling one of these maneuvers. I know plenty of people who got into accidents because someone (them or someone else) failed to stop when they should have stopped.
Considering humans can barely stop when they should, I don't give them a high likelihood to also be able to have the situational awareness and make the multiple split second decisions required to both decide to, and take action upon, directing their car towards the least-valuable obstacle in an emergency. By the time they decide what to do they will probably be rear ended.
Edit: your examples also ignores that with self driving cars, people won't be put in these situations in the first place. A driver not paying attention to the road, looking at their phone would be... not a safety hazard.
- irq11 9y agoAs long as other cars (or humans, or animals...) are on the road, robot cars will face these scenarios. The OP's scenario is contrived to make a clear example, but it happens regularly when you're driving: you're forced to make a choice between acting and possibly hitting something, or doing nothing and being hit. We don't need self driving cars to solve the 80% case of preventing human drivers from hitting things. We need radar and auto-braking, which already exists. Full autonomy requires solving the harder problems.