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Not really, it can just slam on the breaks as hard as ABS will allow, and stay in the middle of the lane to be as predictable as possible.

• ineedasername 5y ago
  Slamming on it's breaks can still result in hitting something. And if there are two somethings-- slam on breaks and hit one, or swerve and hit the other-- then it's going to have to make a hard choice on what gets hit.
  • astrange 5y ago
    It is not going to make that choice because it can't be ethically programmed to make choices. Otherwise, like I said, it will someday decide it's in a hard choice situation when there's no actual problem and randomly drive itself into a wall.
    • xboxnolifes 5y ago
      I'd be pretty sure that the "ethical choice" between swerving to hit a cone and slamming the brakes to maybe hit a person, all else being equal, is a pretty straightforward and can be ethically programmed.
    • ineedasername 5y ago
      Yes, the choice it makes won't be based on ethics, that will ultimately come down to programmers and how well they can train the ai systems to recognize and choose the option with the least human injury. Although programmers will of course try to train it to do that. So maybe the ethical choice is actually further up the chain where people make the decisions on whether or not the AI is good enough. I don't think I that will be accepted by regulators/society until it can be demonstrated that AV's are undeniably safer-- not just as good as human drivers, much much better. Right now it's newsworthy whenever a Tesla auto pilot drives into a barrier. We'll need to get to a point where not only does that not happen, but also that it becomes newsworthy every time an AV saves a life-- swerving out if the way faster than any human reflexes could have reacted to avoid an accident, or a child chasing a ball into the street, etc.