If the car is on the way to the snackbar, all bets are off.
If the car is on the way to the snackbar, all bets are off.
Or your vehicle’s wifi system or whatever system has a hick up, and there is no control of your self driving vehicle.
You are in your back seat with the car heading into an on coming semi truck, or into the back of a semi carrying telephone poles extending 15’ past the rear of the semi, or into a pack of Trump haters protesting several years of Trump being president.
Do I have a choice or have to ride it out.
Could I program it to hit the old Trump protesters?
These are the sort of false hypothetical that the left creates all the time to promote regulations.
It is easy to create silly hypotheticals to push for any regulation you want.
This is a silly hypothetical. Chances of it happening are almost nil.
Personally, I’m not holding my breath waiting for autonomous cars to take over the roads. The best technology currently out there requires a huge array of sensors to be able to navigate safely, and still have problems if visibility is limited (especially if the sensors are obscured by snow and ice).
When you hear people saying that self-driving cars would be more feasible if the lines on the road were painted better, you know the technology is not ready for prime time. If it isn’t at least capable of handling the same variety of conditions and situations as an average human driver (and the average driver is not very good, and they still have no problem figuring out where the road goes if the lines are a bit sketchy), then it’s not ready for the road.
But yeah, when it does come, we probably won’t own the cars anymore. They’ll be too complicated and expensive, with serious maintenance requirements, and liability concerns, that only corporations or maybe public utilities will be able to operate them.
That is, unless someone manages to produce real AI sometime in the next couple of years - AI that can really understand what it is seeing, rather than just running mindless algorithms.
Technology is never a substitute for good management (decision making).
Self-Driving Cars - Just another public transportation system.
If it’s programmed by the far left tech companies, it will automatically go after the white pedestrians first, lol.
I’m still waiting for the FLYING JETSON CARS like they were
showing on cartoons when I was a kid. Heck. What I have
now is more like Fred Flintstone’s car with the rock
wheels that we have to use foot power to move it along the
road.
The purpose of self driving cars is to take away your freedom of movement.
I was a math-and-science nerd growing up.
I am currently writing a science fiction novel.
I think self-driving cars (so called) are an absurdly reckless idea that only disconnected tech geeks could conjure.
(I already hate electric cars: I have nearly been run over by the silent little monsters more than once.)
” How would it decide?”
It would have slowed down and braked.
How many like Windows 10 controlling your computer? I am not in control of my computer anymore. Getting used to it I guess...........................
1) Reprogram the Kobayashi Maru scenario so that you win.
2) Eject the passengers forward out of the car and use them as breaks.
3) Aim for any solid barrier.
4) Turn harder.
5) Calculate the damage if brakes were to fail and slow down before hand.
6) Aim for the jihadist.
7) Aim for the woman in the burka, because she’s probably a jihadist in disguise.
8) Turn off the engine.
9) Apply parking brake.
10) Reverse gears.
11) Attempt 180.
12) Lift off. Hey, if it’s smart enough to determine the age of the people on the right or left, and that the woman on the left has a baby carriage, then it probably has rocket boosters.
It determines if the people are White Christian Males, muzzies, Blacks, gays, L, G, B or T, and mows down the White Christian Males.
Of course part of the point of self driving cars is that they “think” faster than humans and aren’t as easily distracted and thus “notice” that situation well in advance and stop the car without killing anybody.
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As if we needed another reason why self driving vehicles should be prohibited.
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The judgement is easy - preserve the passengers.
They paid for the car or for the ride. They get first consideration when it comes to safety.
Alternately, self driving cars will be programmed to make the choice that creates least liability for the software company and, possibly, its customers.
On the plus side, the auto-driving software should have faster reactions and be in compliance with the speed limit, making it easier to avoid the situation in the first place.
Aside from the Elite who want to force these cars and more control on the rest of us, is there anyone or any market for a self driving car?