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What guarantee do I have that a car will take me where I want to go if I cannot drive it myself and I cannot inspect the software?
by sosilkj 9y ago
What guarantee do I have that a car will take me where I want to go if I cannot drive it myself and I cannot inspect the software?
- tdb7893 9y agoWhat's the guarantee that a taxi driver will take you where you want to go? You can't inspect his software either. A taxi driver could feasibly just leave the taxi and take his keys with him but practically that doesn't happen. Also you would have a cell phone so could call their support or arrange another car
- tree_of_item 9y agoThe taxi driver is a human, humans have different, less spectacular failure modes. In a world with self-driving cars, it's plausible that there's a bug/hack that makes EVERY car on the road do something wrong or malicious like take you to the wrong destination/drive in to a crowd of people etc.
- 111_1_111 9y agoIt's also plausible that a taxi driver could do the exact same thing. What's your point?
- puppetmaster400 9y ago( it won't let me reply on the other thread - pardon, you asked for http://bfy.tw/Gqi6 http://bfy.tw/Gqi6 )
- twblalock 9y agoYou could ask the same question about any car made in the past 5-10 years. They all run millions of lines of code, and none of it is open source. It turns out not to be a problem.