Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.
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Kill the tree off the side of the road, problem solved 😀
ReplyDelete+James Nelson That would be great, but this is for when there's no other option available.. sometimes the robots will have to decide..
ReplyDeleteJessica Meyer - If there is no other option available, the car would be driving in an unsafe manner, and thus shouldn't drive...
ReplyDeleteIn the above picture, it should not be at a speed where it couldn't stop before a crossing.
Morten Lynge well, take out the crossing.. this is an hypothetical situation that could happen with anyone, not likely to happen of course, but possible. If that happens, then the robot should be prepared to act, otherwise we just leave situations like that to chance.
ReplyDeleteJessica Meyer - I know what was meant, however, if 'possible', they'll not be allowed to drive, not for long at least... Once the first of these accidents happen, it'll be over...
ReplyDeleteThe car doesn't translate well to the trolley problem, but I do understand that the simplification is: "someone is going to get hurt, passangers, or one or more people outside, what factors matter". Taking a real world example though, my Telsa is incredibly safe for passangers, even at high speed, the solution is always crash it. The companies have to always account for the variables they have the ability to control, i.e. the car. If all other fail-safes fail, crashing is the only option, period. Survivability is extremely high, and damage is much lower for passangers.
ReplyDeleteAgain the problem assumes passangers, and non-passangers have the same fatality risk, but that's really not possible. The trolley problem is really still only a trolley problem (no seat belts, tracks, etc). Asking an car AI to answer that question, probably not a real solution.