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Yeah, it's something I'd be interested in reading more about: how do we define "better" in this context? Better for whom: society as a whole? Pedestrians? Drive
by zanecodes 6y ago
Yeah, it's something I'd be interested in reading more about: how do we define "better" in this context? Better for whom: society as a whole? Pedestrians? Drivers of self-driving cars? Passengers of self-driving cars? Drivers of non-self-driving cars? And so on...
- NaturalPhallacy 6y agoPrecisely. The impression I got from the video was the car was way more cautious, even more courteous than an overly cautious human drivers would be. It definitely fucked up, but if we define "better" as driving exactly like a skilled human driver, then I expect it to kill exactly as many people as we do. The counter-intuitive advice people are given for things like an animal suddenly leaping into the road is to just hit it, because slamming on the breaks can and has lead to the car's occupants dying for the sake of a squirrel. What do we expect a self driving car to do in that situation? Just imagine the outrage and headlines if a Tesla does what humans are told to do, and kills a dog or cat!