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The Not-So-Safe Self-Driving Car
by eric • December 22, 2015 • 51 Comments
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Obeying the law can sometimes get you killed. Humans – those not asleep at the proverbial wheel – know this.Google self-driving cars don’t.
They are programmed to be obey every law, all the time – regardless of circumstances. This is creating problems. Potentially, fatalities.
Example: Up ahead, there’s a red light. Your autonomous Google car is coming to a stop because its sensors can tell the light’s red. But your Google car hasn’t got a brain, so it can’t override its Prime Directive – obey the red – in order to deal with the big rig coming up behind you that’s locked up its brakes and is clearly going to crush you to death in about three seconds if you don’t run the red light and get out of the truck’s way.
You’d mash the accelerator pedal, blow the light. But the Google car won’t. That would be illegal. So now, you’re dead.
The Not-So-Safe Self-Driving Car
by eric • December 22, 2015 • 51 Comments
Print Friendly
Obeying the law can sometimes get you killed. Humans – those not asleep at the proverbial wheel – know this.Google self-driving cars don’t.
They are programmed to be obey every law, all the time – regardless of circumstances. This is creating problems. Potentially, fatalities.
Example: Up ahead, there’s a red light. Your autonomous Google car is coming to a stop because its sensors can tell the light’s red. But your Google car hasn’t got a brain, so it can’t override its Prime Directive – obey the red – in order to deal with the big rig coming up behind you that’s locked up its brakes and is clearly going to crush you to death in about three seconds if you don’t run the red light and get out of the truck’s way.
You’d mash the accelerator pedal, blow the light. But the Google car won’t. That would be illegal. So now, you’re dead.