These are great questions. Should the driverless car protect passengers at the expense of ohers? And There will be mistakes and accidents, but probably much fewrer than with human drivers. How do we deal with a machine who makes less mistakes then us, but mistakes nonetheless? And what does this do to cab drivers? Reminds me of the automated cab drivers in Total Recall. Thought provoking questions all.
The question gets even better…what if you’re a great driver and your friend is a terrible driver and not too bright. You both own driverless cars. You’re on your way to a football game driving down the freeway in your own vehicles. Your car errors and drives off the freeway into a river, killing you. Your friend makes it to the game error free. You would not have driven off the road, but if anyone would have, it would have been your friend, if it wasn’t for the driverless car. What happened to survival of the fittest?
The aviation industry’s probably a great example. Most aviation accidents are caused by human error and to alleviate this many newer planes can takeoff, fly, and land with the technology in the plane. We may not see entirely driverless cars but something in the middle (back-up sensors, etc) would be a big improvement.
I think for this to work, the cars would have to defer to the pedestrian (3rd Party) vs. passenger, with some sort of assumption of risk by the passenger. (i.e. why didn’t you wear your seat belt or instigate “manual” override, etc.)
These are great questions. Should the driverless car protect passengers at the expense of ohers? And There will be mistakes and accidents, but probably much fewrer than with human drivers. How do we deal with a machine who makes less mistakes then us, but mistakes nonetheless? And what does this do to cab drivers? Reminds me of the automated cab drivers in Total Recall. Thought provoking questions all.
The question gets even better…what if you’re a great driver and your friend is a terrible driver and not too bright. You both own driverless cars. You’re on your way to a football game driving down the freeway in your own vehicles. Your car errors and drives off the freeway into a river, killing you. Your friend makes it to the game error free. You would not have driven off the road, but if anyone would have, it would have been your friend, if it wasn’t for the driverless car. What happened to survival of the fittest?
The aviation industry’s probably a great example. Most aviation accidents are caused by human error and to alleviate this many newer planes can takeoff, fly, and land with the technology in the plane. We may not see entirely driverless cars but something in the middle (back-up sensors, etc) would be a big improvement.
I think for this to work, the cars would have to defer to the pedestrian (3rd Party) vs. passenger, with some sort of assumption of risk by the passenger. (i.e. why didn’t you wear your seat belt or instigate “manual” override, etc.)
So does the car stop working when Android freezes?
No, but it does “pause” mid-trip for a software update several times a week.
I’ve got the new model, trim-line name…the Hackster 1.0
What is a Google?