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In the long term, if all cars are autonomous and communicating, it's reasonable to think that most situations could be handled by carefully coordinated group ac
by muaddirac 12y ago
In the long term, if all cars are autonomous and communicating, it's reasonable to think that most situations could be handled by carefully coordinated group action so that no one is injured. (Especially in the example given in the article - if only one car has a problem, the others should compensate.)
In the near term, though? For legal reasons it might be necessary to hand control immediately to a human driver to let them make the decision.
Or perhaps far, far more stringent inspection requirements could help mitigate some of this?
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoIf civil-rights-conscious Americans demand the right to manually control their cars, then its possible an unpredicted human operation (abrupt stop/turn) could upset the autonomous grid and create unsolvable problems - cars going too fast to adapt in time. Either the entire grid would have to slow down enough for any unanticipated human action (which are unlimited in variety), or they would have to 'push the envelope' and accommodate only the likely behaviors. This could very likely result in facing the issue raised by OP: does the autonomous car(s) sacrifice itself, or hit the human driver while preemptively engaging safety devices for its own driver? The designers of the autonomous network will have to face this issue immediately. Its not some remote possibility; its part of the very fabric of the network.