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This was not a fault of the self-driving car: it was the fault of the human operators. They assumed the athlete crossing the street would notice the vehicle and
by eurasiantiger 5y ago
This was not a fault of the self-driving car: it was the fault of the human operators. They assumed the athlete crossing the street would notice the vehicle and stop.
- xyzzy21 5y agoNot the operators but the designers!! Yes programmers and engineering. Don't give a pass to the guilty! But you are right: moral responsibility can ONLY be a human obligation. Machines are incapable of moral judgements - it's the human that created or operate the technology only. And this is an obvious problem given there will be blind people who can't sense cues that fully-abled people can trivially.
- yummypaint 5y agoPedestrians in a road always have the right of way in Japan. If a person is in or approaching a crossing, the vehicle must stop by law. Both the software and wetware failed.