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Self-Driving Cars Will Decide Who Lives & Who Dies
Industrial Equipment News ^ | 1-18-2017 | Matt O'Brien

Posted on 01/18/2017 10:09:45 AM PST by fishtank

Self-Driving Cars Will Decide Who Lives & Who Dies

But how will they make that decision?

Contributor: Matt O'Brien

BOSTON (AP) — Imagine you're behind the wheel when your brakes fail. As you speed toward a crowded crosswalk, you're confronted with an impossible choice: veer right and mow down a large group of elderly people, or veer left into a woman pushing a stroller.

Now imagine you're riding in the back of a self-driving car. How would it decide?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: cars
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If the car is on the way to the snackbar, all bets are off.

1 posted on 01/18/2017 10:09:45 AM PST by fishtank
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To: fishtank

I’d want that vehicle to be programmed like KITT. KARR would go after people.


2 posted on 01/18/2017 10:11:57 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: fishtank

I don’t plan on ever having a self-driving car, but it is extremely unlikely that the brakes will have a catastrophic mechanical failure without one of the cars other computers picking up on the weakness. There are better hypotheticals than this one.


3 posted on 01/18/2017 10:12:40 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: fishtank

We don’t need “self-driving” cars!!!!

PHOOEY!!!!


4 posted on 01/18/2017 10:12:49 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Red Badger

Ping.


5 posted on 01/18/2017 10:13:03 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: fishtank

Go straight.


6 posted on 01/18/2017 10:13:31 AM PST by Gadsden1st
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To: fishtank

7 posted on 01/18/2017 10:13:44 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: fishtank
Anyone who would want one these ‘cars’ is insane...

I want to control where I go and how I get there...this makes as much sense as being on a motorcycle going 70 miles an hour without holding on to the handlebars and gears...

Liberalism is a mental disease: ‘Trying the same thing over and over again hoping for different results’...

8 posted on 01/18/2017 10:13:44 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: fishtank

What if there’s a mob blocking an Interstate?


9 posted on 01/18/2017 10:14:19 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: fishtank

Rock the Snack Bar. Didn’t the Clash perform that?


10 posted on 01/18/2017 10:14:51 AM PST by rey
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To: Dr. Sivana

Agreed.

I had a tire blowout doing 85 on the Garden State. Those years of driving horrible cars for livery paid off and I got over three lanes to the shoulder.

I was wondering how a driver-less car would handle that, but I was told there are new tires that have a tire within a tire if you have a blowout.


11 posted on 01/18/2017 10:15:12 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: fishtank

Put out the wings.


12 posted on 01/18/2017 10:15:17 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Honorary Serb
We don’t need “self-driving” cars!!!!

Agree.

And as to the hypothetical ... most of us would do everything possible to try the impossible of avoiding collision with anybody ... even at the cost of our own lives.

13 posted on 01/18/2017 10:15:24 AM PST by NorthMountain (Washington Post is Fake News)
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To: fishtank

"...As long as it gets me to the Global Warming conference on time, who cares?..."
~ typical leftwinger sentiment ~


14 posted on 01/18/2017 10:16:32 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Army Air Corps
Self-Driving Cars Will Decide Who Lives & Who Dies

ObamaCars?....................

15 posted on 01/18/2017 10:16:32 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: Dr. Sivana
I don’t plan on ever having a self-driving car

Supposedly, you won't even have a car in the age of self-driving cars. People will simply summon a ride via an Uber-type app and get chauffeured by the self-driving car to where they are going; same for the return trip.

I frankly don't see it happening in our lifetimes. It's like those flying cars that are always shown in depictions of the future. They're a looooong way off IMO.

16 posted on 01/18/2017 10:17:04 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: alancarp
What if there’s a mob blocking an Interstate?

Ramming Speed!


17 posted on 01/18/2017 10:17:13 AM PST by NorthMountain (Washington Post is Fake News)
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To: fishtank

One of the problems I see with self-driving cars is much more likely than the stupid scenario of the brakes failing just at the moment where there is now a choice to kill two different groups of people:

When there are enough self-driving cars, I’m sure there is going to be plenty of automatic traffic-related re-routing.

Who gets the best routes? And in fact, will more “prestigious” drivers get things like solid green lights and other cars diverted out of their way... “automatically”?


18 posted on 01/18/2017 10:18:58 AM PST by samtheman (delete * from executive orders where author=obama)
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To: HarleyLady27
Anyone who would want one these ‘cars’ is insane...

Cute. But surely you realize it will be the LAW to have one, or you cannot use the interstates of the future.

Neil Peart of Rush nailed it in "Red Barchetta."

19 posted on 01/18/2017 10:19:52 AM PST by montag813
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To: alancarp

The car will stop, refuse to push slowly forward through them, and they will pull you out like Reginald Denny.


20 posted on 01/18/2017 10:20:38 AM PST by DesertRhino
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