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It's not as if pedestrians are any safer. A self driving car that hits a person because it gets confused where a human wouldn't have is just as bad. When lives
by autoexec 3y ago
It's not as if pedestrians are any safer. A self driving car that hits a person because it gets confused where a human wouldn't have is just as bad. When lives are on the line, taking control from the human requires that the machine must be at least good as the human would be in every situation or we're better off leaving humans in control with machines augmenting their abilities.
It's great that we have cars that can warn us when there's something in our blind spot, something behind us while we back up, or when we drift out of our lane. Until the software can perform as well as we can, any more than that is a liability.
- bluGill 3y ago> machine must be at least good as the human would be in every situation or we're better off leaving humans in control with machines augmenting their abilities. That isn't quite right. There can be situations where the human is better, so long as in the majority of situations the machine is better. This is why I said it is a statistical question. I'm not demanding perfection, I'm asking for better than humans overall. Of course if the machine knows it is in a situation where it isn't as good it is fine to make the human drive.