Re:Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?
by bsder on Thursday December 10, 2015 @03:16AM
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> Will the cars drive so passive/defensive that none of them have the "balls" to break symmetry?
Yes, that "behavior" had to be programmed in.
The autonomous vehicles had to learn to be "assertive" (ie. start rolling slowly into the intersection) in order to not confuse other drivers at the stop.
The vehicles also had to learn that a hipster standing on a fixie's pedals rocking back-and-forth was not an intersection hazard in spite of scoring high on the idiot detector.
Yes, that "behavior" had to be programmed in.
The autonomous vehicles had to learn to be "assertive" (ie. start rolling slowly into the intersection) in order to not confuse other drivers at the stop.
The vehicles also had to learn that a hipster standing on a fixie's pedals rocking back-and-forth was not an intersection hazard in spite of scoring high on the idiot detector.