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Driverless cars will in the far future also be able to minimize the injuries and deaths when an accident cannot be avoided by deciding who should be hurt and wh
by kubiiii 12y ago
Driverless cars will in the far future also be able to minimize the injuries and deaths when an accident cannot be avoided by deciding who should be hurt and who should not.
For example it might hit a motorcyclist with a helmet, rather than one wearing none. Or a single older pedestrian walking on the sidewalk rather than a young one suddenly crossing the street.
It's frightening.
- userbinator 12y agoOr by then, motorcyclists might not exist anymore since motorcycles have been deemed too dangerous and made illegal, and neither pedestrians since it has become too convenient to use automated transport and walking is considered a waste of time. Frightening indeed.
- kubiiii 12y agoEven if there are only driverless cars, you can imagine that some models will have a costly casualty limiting option that will ask cheap neighbouring cars to take the maximum damage when a collision occur.
- Lambdanaut 12y agoI still go on walks to "waste time". Feels great. I don't see our legs being completely obsoleted yet.
- timje1 12y agoBy then, of course, the sewer people will have risen up and reclaimed control of the overworld. A slippery slope. Frightening.
- okasaki 12y agoHow is this frightening? Aren't these the decisions that humans should make if they had the ability?
- ascorbic 12y agoI'd imagine most people would find the idea of an AI making real time life or death ethical decisions such as the Trolley Problem[1] a little troubling. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem