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In my entire life, I've never encountered the Trolley Problem, and I've never met anyone who has. Most safety problems in driving can be solved by slowing down
by spin 8y ago
In my entire life, I've never encountered the Trolley Problem, and I've never met anyone who has.
Most safety problems in driving can be solved by slowing down.
The problem with AI is all those weird, little edge cases that humans can reason through -- for example: if there's a deer next to the road, then I'll slow down, even if it's not on the road yet. I've known many people who have hit a deer when it spontaneously jumps into traffic. Or something like: someone's not quite staying in their own lane, so I have to be careful when I pass them.
- batteryhorse 8y agoPerhaps most safety problems. But if you need to outrun an erupting volcano, a tsunami, or the police, slowing down won't really help you.
- spin 8y ago"... outrun ... the police" I doubt that this is a use-case that legal, for-profit companies will be pursuing. For the other use-cases, you can just say: Manual driving only.
- spin 8y agoI think that this is a more realistic/relevant example of "slowing down or stopping is not always the safest action": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuK-fi-D_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuK-fi-D_w