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Evaluating safety of self driving cars is not just a matter of comparing number of failures of number of accidents, or any one scalar number. Just to illustrat
by j7ake 3y ago
Evaluating safety of self driving cars is not just a matter of comparing number of failures of number of accidents, or any one scalar number.
Just to illustrate my point, imagine a case where self driving cars have same number of fatal deaths (normalised by whatever you need to convince yourself), but self driving cars disproportionately fail on dark skinned children. Then it is obvious that self driving cars are worse.
Weird failure cases, cases where a bad human driver would do better, are bad for self driving cars.
- ajross 3y agoYour point is that we shouldn't have self-driving vehicles because... we can't prove they're not racist? I'm not following. I mean, yes, you're correct that there are edge cases in any moral analysis and it's not just about comparing two numbers (though in safety arguments, yeah, it's almost always about simple numbers). But you don't get to wave that fact as a get-out-of-jail-free card in an argument! You need to show us the edge case. And the best you can do is "the cars might be racist"?
- ryanklee 3y agoGP's example is just to give a hypothetical instance of why qualitative analysis needs to be considered as well.