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Should each vehicle be autonomous and make its own decision based on the data that it can capture around (light/sound i.e. radio waves) and possibly open truste
by llsf 7y ago
Should each vehicle be autonomous and make its own decision based on the data that it can capture around (light/sound i.e. radio waves) and possibly open trusted data (maps, traffic, weather, etc.) rather than being dumb and follow a control center that can fail, be abused or get hacked ?
I guess one who control the traffic data source, could influence the vehicle's decisions. Vehicles could talk to each other and propagate traffic information, but again vehicles have to trust each other. It comes down to a trust issue.
- tomrod 7y agoWhy not both? Central command except when specific thresholds exceeded
- TomMarius 7y agoDecentralized command?
- wil421 7y agoShould the car protect the driver or the other people around it? If you have a hypothetical situation where the car is driving lawfully and a family jumps into the road. Assume the car has only two options. Does the computer hit the family or swerve into the telephone pole? Even if the computer believes turning will kill the driver. 2 cars talk to each other and realize one will need to turn to avoid an accident. Assume only 1 driver will survive. Which car does what? What if both computers turn and there are bystanders on both sides?
- oh_sigh 7y agoYeah, these points are constantly brought up with self driving car tech and are honestly extremely boring. The cars will just slam on the brakes as the most effective way to avoid an accident. No software is going to look at the number of passengers or the value of passengers and decide which car needs to be sacrificed for the greater good. Self-driving cars don't need to be programmed to be the ultimate moral arbiters of life. They just need to be safer than human drivers. What would optimal human drivers do in the instance that a family jumps out into the middle of the road? Probably just slam on the brakes. Not send their car head first into a semi trailer moving in the opposite direction.
- rootusrootus 7y agoExactly. We already advise people that swerving is significantly more dangerous than just slamming on the brakes and maintaining some semblance of car control. That advice still applies when a computer is doing the driving. Longitudinal grip is a lot more reliable in various conditions than lateral grip, so that's what you go with.
- llsf 7y agoI am not sure if the self-driving software weights scenarios based on casualties. It should just follow what it has been trained for... mimicking human driving that have been labelled as correct. To go back to your 1st scenario, as a human, seeing a family jumping in front of my car, in a split second, I would have probably try to avoid them, even if as a result it would have kill myself. Now, someone reviewing my driving, could decide in the insight that it was not the right decision and not train the self-driving with my sacrificial driving. But at the end, it would just be one brain ("self-driving AI") that would make split-second decisions, for the better or worse... hopefully statistically better than human in general. If cars talk to each other (again assuming trust, and that cars do not lie to each other), it could be used as one extra input for the car's self driving brain. Indirectly, you could consider that as controlling a car's self driving brain, if you know for sure how the car is going to react. Each car would make its own decisions, and adjust according to the consequences.