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its not false, you get to choose, or a choice will be made on your behalf.

• rootusrootus 8y ago
  There is no choice. The car cannot calculate the probabilities, which is a prerequisite to being presented with a choice. No question, no choice, no decision. And nobody is going to try too hard to make it feasible, either, because the answer to that hypothetical question would be the same -- occupants and outsiders will both be safer if the car stops moving. So ... just stop the car.
  • cortic 8y ago
    Don't look now but you just made a decision. The result of your choice, to brake or 'just stop' means there will be situations where passengers die to save real or theoretical pedestrians, as soon as this is established in the media the sales of these cars will plummet, and your decision will have repercussions increasing the number of human-accidents across the board. > The car cannot calculate the probabilities I think we may be talking about different things, probabilities are the foundation of self driving algorithms, there is never a 100% right place, just adjustments and corrections, calculations that lead to percentages that lead to choices. Maybe you are thinking about the older cruise control (like in some BMWs), they tried to anticipate things on the road and would brake faster than a human could, saved a few bumps, caused a few..