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I think everyone is misunderstanding this. It is not saying that autonomous cars must stop driving in ambiguous situations. It is acknowledging that in clear em
by phyller 8y ago
I think everyone is misunderstanding this. It is not saying that autonomous cars must stop driving in ambiguous situations. It is acknowledging that in clear emergencies driver inputs can be ignored, but once the emergency is over driver inputs must overrule software.
For example, the car is driving me somewhere, and there is a wreck on the other side of the road. Foolish human nature takes over, I take control of the car to slow down and look at the accident. I am overriding the cars autonomous software. The car in front of me is doing the same thing, but slows down even more. My car senses a collision about to happen, and takes control by applying the brakes, ignoring my input on the gas. Once the clear danger is over, the car must give control back to me, but only if I continue to choose to override its normal operation. Otherwise it will resume driving itself.
This is basically an application of Asimov's "three laws" concept.
- ythn 8y agoSeems like there would be new corner cases where "ignoring driver input" is bad, even if the car judges that it is an "emergency"