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Should a Self-Driving Car Save Passengers, or Kids in the Road?
- nabla9 8y agoTrolley problem is one of those hypothetical made up questions that self-driving cars will never need to think about. Self-driving cars will learn to break and stop safely when bad things happen. They are not expected to find optimal solutions for freak accidents. If doing the default to do that kills both the passengers and kids on the street then so be it. When brakes fail, obstacle avoidance probably works but there will be no deeper logic behind it. The choice that is made is probably just some random learned bias inside the neural network, not something well designed.
- oldgradstudent 8y agoIn the trolly problem, a runaway trolley is moving toward five tied-up people on the tracks. There's a switch which redirects the trolley toward a single person, who is also tied up on the track. In the deep learning world, your system classifies the five people as a large kangaroo, while the single person is classified as a STOP AHEAD roadsign. What is the most ethical choice for the system to make?