I hate Illinois NAZIs ...
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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I hate Illinois NAZIs ...
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.
Yeah we do. Especially America, home of the worst drivers in the civilized world.
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As if we needed another reason why self driving vehicles should be prohibited.
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While a manually-driven car can be used to shove your way through the mob to safety, a self-driving car will just stop and let the mob drag you out and beat you to death.
I think there are several forces in play. You have the techies that want to sell the products that go into the auto. Highway planners in big city metro areas want it to decrease commute travel times, etc. Then there are the ride sharing companies and transportation firms that don't want to pay for drivers unless they have to.
My thought is that the only way it will work is if the cars run fairly slowly, almost like a tram car ride. They may well be electric, running like little toy cars on an electric grid. It would require a repressive government to force people to accept a world in which they no longer drive cars but merely catch a ride on the robotic cars. I really don't see it happening anytime soon.
Same thing happened to me! I had a blowout on November 8 2008 when I was going to pick up my mother and drive her to the voting booth. Lost control for a couple of seconds, recovered, and had a drop-dead gorgeous amazon of a NJ state trooper help me get a change of tire. All I got for my pains was a tongue-lashing from my mother for being an hour late to the polls!
I like to drive. I can’t imagine being driven.
Guess you’ve never driven in Sicily, Italy or Ireland!
Ireland:
Fatalities per 100,000 people: 4.1
Fatalities per 100,000 cars: 7.6
Fatalities per 1 billion car KM: 3.9
Italy (which includes Sicily):
Fatalities per 100,000 people: 6.1
Fatalities per 100,000 cars: 7.3
US:
Fatalities per 100,000 people: 10.6
Fatalities per 100,000 cars: 12.9
Fatalities per 1 billion car KM: 7.1
The stats are in, we’re terrible drivers.
It’s the next killer app, or in this case non-killer app. Self driving cars have been a sci-fi staple for generations, so everybody in the nerd community knows the concept. Add to that the fact that car accidents are still the number 1 killer on the planet. Then you’ve got the fact that we are not expanding road capacity to keep up with people or car quantity and that only leaves one solution to traffic congestion: make the cars take less space. Self driving can do that.
Then you’ve got the industrial drivers, expensive people with expensive licenses that get revoked easily, and have limited time windows of driving available to them. Long haul trucking want self driving vehicles badly. Cab companies want them.
There is a lot of money to be made and saved with self driving vehicles.
Much bigger country, many more cars. Sicily doesn’t exactly think of itself as a part of Italy, lol.
Those stats are per person, and per car, and per mile. So it normalizes our size differences out, and shows that we’re terrible. We are the least trained drivers in the civilized world, the least skilled drivers in the civilized world, and the most likely die in an accident.
Sicily should take it up with the UN.
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.
LOL! Seriously enjoy that scene! Thx!
I LOVE your posts :)
And I’m glad you were a good enough driver to safely get over!! It’s not easy!
THAT LOW!!!!
They can keep em. Now they’re worth, with this news, 3 or 4 hundred thousand.
There are 50k taxis i think but half a million is a lot to make up if youre racing against the clock.
The number of people needed to maintain these things, unlike computers, will be a much lesser number than the people it replaces
Have you ever visited these countries. Most places aren’t exactly built for speed.
I would have a nervous breakdown within a month.
We can make the speed limit 5 miles an hour and beat them out.
It’s all about what you want.
Open highway with a cool breeze and a fast car. Or a toy that does 25 mph.
Going on raw numbers without so many other factors involved is REALLY BAD science.
Keep you day job.
Or, if we’re such bad drivers, move to Ireland :)
YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!
It’s not raw numbers. And it’s good science. We get in more accidents, and a higher percentage of those accidents have fatalities. Meanwhile we spend less time in drivers training, and our drivers license testing wouldn’t even get you a learners permit in much of the world.
I don’t want to move to Ireland, the weather sucks. None of which changes the well known FACT American drivers are terrible. Under trained, under skilled, and over egoed.
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