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Re:Toyota Wants Cars to React to the Unexpected, and Then Ex... by zyxley on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:50AM (#10851104)
I'd rather see a focus on smarter and faster braking then on solving contrived moral dilemmas.
Re:Toyota Wants Cars to React to the Unexpected, and Then Ex... by mikeash on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:44PM (#10852034)
I don't understand why this keeps coming up. I have never seen or even heard of a driver getting into a situation where there's any sort of moral dilemma in how they react. There's always an obvious best answer or a bunch of equivalently good answers.

For the one-in-a-trillion cases where this is not true, it's OK if the car reacts sub-optimally. It will still be vastly better than human drivers, who frequently react sub-optimally in unambiguous situations.

Re:Toyota Wants Cars to React to the Unexpected, and Then Ex... by Qworg on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:47PM (#10852073)
There are physical limits on how fast or smart you can make braking.

We make thousands of unconscious decisions while driving - many of them moral/ambiguous. "Should I pass this car in the intersection even though it is breaking the law?" "Can I squeeze past this bicyclist even though it forces them towards the curb?"

The core of most of these arguments assume a fully autonomous world - and it just won't work like that.

Re:Toyota Wants Cars to React to the Unexpected, and Then Ex... by infecto on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @11:15AM (#10851290)
This please.