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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What technological innovations do we "need"?
Do we need cell phones? Cable TV? GPS units?
All of the people on here saying "I will never have a self-driving car" sound an awful like the old coots in the early 2000's who said "I will never have cell phone" or "What do I need a computer for?" I don't know if self driving cars will be good for us as a society or not but I do know one thing.....they are not just coming, they are here. Like it or not, most kids being born today will probably never get a driver's license. Their children will be as likely to know how to drive a car as kids today are to know how to ride a horse.
I work in a field that is dealing with the infrastructure and operational aspects of self-driving cars, and I've said for a long time that the main impediment to adopting self-driving car technology is the legal challenge of transforming from user-based liability/insurance to manufacturer-based product liability.
I don't think they are that long off. I fully expect that self-driving trucks will be common on the highways within 5 years. At first, they will be required to have drivers, who will use the self driving feature like a pilot uses autopilot. Eventually, the truck drivers will be eliminated completely.
Self driving cars in cities is more problematic. They are safer if everyone is using them. Not so much when they are competing with human drivers in crowded traffic.
Self-Driving Cars - Just another public transportation system.
We’ll see how this all plays out, but I think it is a very short step from “driverless cars” to driverless cars that require buying assorted special government chip privileges to go certain places in lieu of toll booths.
Next, liberals will want programs written that will aggregate data and determine who is going where all for the super innocuous benefit of automatically “helping” people car pool. This is before they actually mandate car pooling if the algorithm shows your going to the same location at roughly the same time. Otherwise - surprise! - you can pay a hefty fee to use your individual driverless car. Really, not much different than car pooling lanes in many cities — outside of the sheer coercion.
I’m not against technology, but it seems to me that there are forces out there that are moving mountains to bring about driverless cars. For what real reason or benefit? And more importantly, who is asking for driverless cars? As far as I can see, no one at all has been clamoring for driverless cars outside of groups and people who are certain that globull warming is a major issue.
And that’s what scares me!
lol
Not a self driving car. But a BLONDE driving car.
I’d rather take my chances with the former over the latter.
You do know about many opponents of the Deep State who died in airplane crashes. Now imagine Deep State can target its opponents driving or riding in self-driving cars. And anyone who notices this publicly goes to the top of the list.
Even if you can’t picture this in the USA, imagine a Stalin or Pol Pot hiring experts to do this, where it is normal to not have many vocal opponents.
Shareef don’t like it
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.
Technology is never a substitute for good management (decision making).
The purpose of self driving cars is to take away your freedom of movement.
I have had that happen to me. It was a busy 4 lane highway alongside a city park with a row of cars parked along the side of the park. I was on the inside lane. 5 year old kid shoots out into the highway chasing a ball. I was lucky there was no car in the right lane and was able to swerve right. The oncoming car in the inside lane also swerved to his right, but he was not as lucky.
it’s a question of who then takes on the liability for the decision that is made.
“Anyone who would want one these ‘cars’ is insane...”
what I’m thinking is each car will need multiple sensors. At any given time in a well used car, at least a couple sensors will be kaput, making the car undriveable.
There is no question that whoever gets hit, the car manufacturer will get sued.
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.)
We already have self-driving vehicles - buses in Las Vegas. Right now, they have a maximum speed of 15 mph, and serve a loop around the Strip.
18-wheelers are the big market on the interstate. Trucking companies are having trouble filling jobs as older truckers retire, as young men and women don’t want to be away from Facebook/video games/family/friends. Plus many couldn’t regularly pass a drug test, even a pre-employment drug test.
” How would it decide?”
It would have slowed down and braked.
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