Kyrin Wyldstar wrote: In a few very rare scenarios, a driverless car may have to make a choice between protecting its occupants and protecting pedestrians. For example, if it's driving down a road at speed and someone runs out into the road, should it swerve into other traffic to avoid them, potentially injuring or killing the driver and passengers? Or should it make every attempt to stop, even though it knows it won’t be able to, killing the pedestrian?
We are taught the emergency stop when learning to drive a car, not the emergency swerve out the way. Why exacerbate the risk by endangering other lives?
I would trust the operating of a car to a machine over a human any day. Don't judge a machine by perfection, judge it by how it compares to human imperfection.
There is a case for driverless cars still allowing a human to take over manual control. You never know when you might get attacked by robots afterall...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UTaSMYK4gs
RyuJin wrote: i didn't read all the posts...but driverless cars come with a major risk...hackers can access them....it was already proven with a new jeep grand cherokee, a hacker accessed the jeep's computer through it's onstar thingy or whatever chrysler uses, and the hacker was able to control the radio/ac/electronics and was even able to shut the vehicle down while it was being driven...the driver had no control over the vehicle once it was shut down...
If hacking is already a problem for normal cars, does a driverless car mean all that much difference?
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