Posted on 03/19/2018 10:20:30 AM PDT by Reno89519
Uber is temporarily halting self-driving car tests in all locations after a deadly accident.
Programs in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Toronto will be paused after a woman was hit and killed overnight by an Uber self-driving car when walking across the street in Tempe, Arizona. It is likely the first pedestrian fatality caused by a self-driving car.
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They will argue that, statistically, driverless cars are safer.
There are more pertinent points to critique Oober about.
Government bears the blame here, as everyone with any common sense at all knew that the AI was assuredly going to kill someone; we have a long way to go...
“Was he driving?”
Legally, yes.
GPS did that to me once
The really old who can’t drive any longer or driving has become a real chore for them want them now! Everything revolves around their immediate needs. DONCHAKNOW.
A) There was no human error, unless it was error on the pedestrian’s part. Thus goal accomplished.
B) No one said there wouldn’t be some machine error. Just that it would likely be less than human error and would improve over time.
C) I”m an advocate and one accident which was likely the pedestrian’s fault will hardly silence me.
D) Yes when everything is automated there will be more accidents due to automation. But total accidents will decrease as the decrease in human error will more than offset the increase in machine error.
The Uber car became self aware and the pedestrian looked like Elon Musk.
5.56mm
However, great leeway should be granted to the injured. Not only should they get any benefit of the doubt, but they should be allowed to assume that the driverless car did not have the “sense” to preemptively avoid a problem.
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On what basis? Is the autonomous car expected to defy the laws of physics, or to compensate for other people breaking the law?
Actually, my take on this is that whatever issue you want to use for comparison, the software of the vehicle can and will be able to exceed the capability of the human. Even things like anticipation of potential problems can be handled (although I doubt that they are using these speculations in today’s versions — they can adapt and improve and someday will do just that.)
When we think of something that is extremely human, like intuition, a computer program can be designed so that it will appear to mimic the human mind and do something intuitively. Only it will be the result of massive calculations and Baysian statistics that comes out with the same decision.
The other thing that we know is that the vehicle will have software that will make decisions and sometimes these decisions will choose the “best” result for the vehicle. In other words, do you program the vehicle to hit the pedestrian or swerve into a lamp post and risk killing the occupants of the vehicle? This software will eventually be fine tuned and installed in these vehicles as well.
I wouldn’t want a machine I couldn’t have a sufficient measure of hands on control of.
“These should never be allowed on the road. Put them in a theme park, say Disney World and let them work the bugs out but not on our streets.”
They all have human drivers while the bugs are being worked out.
And not the last.
It sounds to me like the drivers in India need to be replaced with autonomous cars.
I thought all of these test cars still had humans behind the wheel to take over in case the AI makes an error. Why didn’t the human intervene to avoid the pedestrian?
Either Skynet is forming or it was just an unfortunate accident because all the information the car received led it to the conclusion the least harmful action at the moment was to hit the woman.
As usual we speculate on articles that don't have any details. Being late at night, I speculate alcohol was somehow involved. Lets say the pedestrian was drunk. If so, the current technology isn't very good.
I will NEVER sit down in a driver less car.
I suppose that it's a love story between a boy and his car. It doesn't have a happy ending, though. :-)
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