---- On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 Jim writes ---- > If the driverless vehicle drives like a dumb but safe driver it could save > a lot of lives, injury and loss ... Like everything else driverless vehicles > will be resisted by some, and taken up happily by others ... Neither the > government or their owners will want them .. if they don't work reliably.
For mine, it'll be a question of the definition of the terms, "work reliably." It's a problem, but, I'd prefer that my driverless car was not programmed to automatically kill my family over multiple others. I suspect they will be. For an example think an impending accident on a mountain road between your family-filled sedan and a bus-load of 20 school excursion kids? Under political correctness for safety purposes which vehicle goes over the side? If a human driver can see a one-in-a-hundred chance of both the vehicles staying on the road they'd take it. But, could our "road worthy" computer? We will need to carefully consider how we program future driver-less cars. They might well be programmed, for political correctness, to kill the owner. Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
