Reply to post: Re: Descisions

Why do driverless car makers have this insatiable need for speed?

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Re: Descisions

> How does a driverless car some the ethical dilemma of either breaking but still hitting the pedestrian or swerving and crashing into the other car? Either way someone gets hurt.

So, what would you do in that situation?

Given that an automated car could make whatever decision it needed to make in a small fraction of the time it would take a meatbag and executing it much faster then the chance of actually hitting *anything* is much decreased.

I get your point, but driverless cars don't have to be perfect, they just have to be much better than humans. The world is chaotic. Therefore, it is not possible to build an evaluation system that is capable of reacting to all possible situations.

But then neither can humans.

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