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Things makes me think about the poor woman who was killed by a "self driving car". If the software had acted as expected she would have been alive. If self d
by ThinkBeat 8y ago
Things makes me think about the poor woman who was killed by a "self driving car".
If the software had acted as expected she would have been alive. If self driving cars become popular, coding mistakes will kill more people.
(Yes, they had wilfully disengaged the built in automatic breaking feature of the car in order to allow their software to control it, and the human safety engineer riding in the car, was not paying attention to the road (also because the safety egineer blidnly trusted the software runnign the car) were factor as well)
- Jwarder 8y ago> also because the safety egineer blidnly trusted the software runnign the car My understanding is the opposite. Uber's software was generating a lot of false breaking events so they set it up so it wasn't controlling the breaks. Drivers were trying to gather evidence about the triggers for these false events. That created this perverse situation where the software correctly identified it should have braked, but the only action it could take was to raise an alert, distracting the driver at a critical moment.