But what is "greater good"? Who decides that? Does the government come up with a set of specifications for whose lives are more valuable? A big ordered list? What are the classes of people on that list? Do government officials get a bump up the list? Do homeless people get shoved to the bottom? Do special interests get to lobby for higher placement on the list?
These are rhetorical questions of course. I just think it's a fascinating thought experiment -- and one that may become real in the not-so-distant future.
Maybe. But I don't think so. This is about a programmer back in the lab deciding whose life is more important. These cars are nothing close to AI... yet.
Here's another one. What if the car is driving across a bridge. A kid runs off the sidewalk in front of the car. The car can swerve but will fly off the bridge, killing its occupants. What does it do?
Are these cars programmed to protect their occupants at all costs?
What if the car could also choose to swerve into oncoming traffic, ensuring a head-on collision. But the car calculates that there is a 50% chance that everyone will survive, but heavily injured. What does it do?
RIDEGURU
But then I guess they wouldn't probalby be driving for Uber huh.
Well, unless they were US born but then somehow denaturalized... like if they went and fought with ISIS or somethin.... lol
"88% of our respondents reported being American citizens while just 12% reported being foreign-born."
K I'm gonna nitpick here. American citizens can be foreign-born. Just sayin.
Cash is always better...
Shoulda checked on RideGuru first :) Then they would have known those "tolls" were bogus and gotten out earlier.
Yeah I'm a straight dude but... yeah, these guys are ridiculously photogenic.
But what is "greater good"? Who decides that? Does the government come up with a set of specifications for whose lives are more valuable? A big ordered list? What are the classes of people on that list? Do government officials get a bump up the list? Do homeless people get shoved to the bottom? Do special interests get to lobby for higher placement on the list?
These are rhetorical questions of course. I just think it's a fascinating thought experiment -- and one that may become real in the not-so-distant future.
Maybe. But I don't think so. This is about a programmer back in the lab deciding whose life is more important. These cars are nothing close to AI... yet.
Here's another one. What if the car is driving across a bridge. A kid runs off the sidewalk in front of the car. The car can swerve but will fly off the bridge, killing its occupants. What does it do?
Are these cars programmed to protect their occupants at all costs?
What if the car could also choose to swerve into oncoming traffic, ensuring a head-on collision. But the car calculates that there is a 50% chance that everyone will survive, but heavily injured. What does it do?
Drugs happened.
That does seem crazy. We're not talking about a credit report here, this is people's safety.
They should make an express option. Driver drives like bat out of hell. Costs extra because you gotta pay for any speeding tickets incurred :)