At 01:50 PM 14/07/2016, Brendan wrote: >Presumably, driverless cars are going to disproportionately remove drunks, >suicides and young men from the accident statistics. If there is only a >marginal improvement in _overall_ statistics, then that implies that they're >being balanced by losses from other groups, so you are effectively choosing >who will be killed on the roads.
Just read through the last 8 or so messages on this and didn't see the following idea considered. Mixture - you have some people as passenger/drivers in auto-automobiles and others, including those drunks/young people (some girls are reckless too)/Mr Magoo seniors squinting over the steering wheels/those intent on taking out themselves and a few others along the way. Can an auto-auto anticipate which of those non-mid-range drivers are involved when any counter measures are required? What are the points of failure that need to be accounted for in these scenarios? Jan I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Some psychopaths become serial killers, and other psychopaths become prosecutors. - Bob Ruff, Truth and Justice, June 2016 Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
