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> I think there are too many possible risks of programming the vehicle to do anything except stop dead in an emergency situation - you rapidly get into very com
by forapurpose 9y ago
> I think there are too many possible risks of programming the vehicle to do anything except stop dead in an emergency situation - you rapidly get into very complex programming with all kinds of failure modes
Perhaps that limitation should disqualify AI from driving cars.
- corobo 9y agoAI only needs to be better than people. I've seen a person drive the wrong way round a roundabout here. The bar is very low.
- cicero 9y agoAI will need to be better than a good human driver, so these kinds of comparisons are not helpful. A good human driver would back up out of the way of the truck and/or sound the horn. If this is too hard for AI, then it is not ready.
- corobo 9y agoAI needs to be better than the average human driver to drastically reduce accidents and deaths. We agree on the horn though, it should know when to honk at things.
- lsaferite 9y agoA SDC needs to be better than humans on average to be a safer choice. It doesn't need to be perfect. Now, getting humans to acknowledge that and embrace that is the real problem.
- DennisP 9y agoParticularly since most drivers think they're above average. A car which is just better than the average driver might be a tough sell for them.
- namelost 9y agoPractically it needs to be perfect, because whoever makes the self-driving car will be liable every time it kills someone. And there's going to be millions of these things.