(20 Nov 2014) A large truck speeding in the opposite direction suddenly veers into your lane.
Jerk the wheel left and smash into a bicyclist?
Swerve right toward a family on foot?
Slam the brakes and brace for head-on impact?
Drivers make split-second decisions based on instinct and a limited view of the dangers around them.
The cars of the future _ those that can drive themselves thanks to an array of sensors and computing power _ should have near-perfect perception and react based on preprogrammed logic.
While cars that do most or even all of the driving may be much safer, accidents happen. How those cars should react (hit the bicyclist, the family or self-sacrifice)--can we just say "to a dilemma" instead of the parenthetical? is a field even less developed than the technology itself.
The relatively easy part is writing computer code that will dictate how a car should react.--I like the order of the thoughts in the NN a little better. First say writing the code for reacting is easy. Then, deciding what the reaction should be is the hard part. If you can make that work here.
"The problem is, who's determining what we want?" asks Jeffrey Miller, a University of Southern California professor who develops driverless vehicle software. "You're not going to have 100 percent buy-in that says, 'Hit the guy on the right.'"
Companies that are testing driverless cars have, by all accounts, not focused on these moral questions.
To some, the fundamental moral question doesn't ask about rare and catastrophic accidents but rather how to balance caution over introducing the technology against its potential to save lives.
After all, more than 30,000 people die in traffic accidents each year in the United States.
And what about government regulators _ how will they treat crashes, especially those that are particularly gruesome or the result of a decision that a person would be unlikely to make?
Few states have passed any rules governing self-driving cars on public roads, and the federal government appears to be in no hurry to regulate them.
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