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Yes, but robots only need to kill one to be demonised. I think this is because the human theoretically can regret it and be punished, whereas there can never b
by hessenwolf 15y ago
Yes, but robots only need to kill one to be demonised. I think this is because the human theoretically can regret it and be punished, whereas there can never be a feeling of justice with the robot. The manufacturers take on a lot of liability (GOOGLE'S CHILD-KILLING DEATH MACHINES!)
- dodo53 15y agoAnd yet individual regret / manslaughter charges don't seem to actually change road death statistics. I'd so love for this to happen; I kinda also doubt it will though anytime soon.
- kmfrk 15y agoAnother thing is that any accident that an autonomously driven car gets into will be blamed on the car automatically, before any information is available. In other words, it probably only takes an accident, not even culpability, to get demonized.
- Egregore 15y agoI think that autonomously driven cars will have a lot of cameras and a black box like airplanes do, so that all the data before the accident will be available and if somebody else is guilty of accident - videos will be published by car manufacturer.
- kmfrk 15y agoThe videos are hopefully going to carry some weight, but I find your consolation in the available data somewhat optimistic; at best, I think they'll just cushion the backlash.