U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers

Re:U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers by davnicwil on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:23AM (#11073742)

In situations which usually induce anger in people on the roads, it seems more likely that any resulting behaviours resembling road rage only disadvantage the driver, if the goal is safety.

So if anything, wouldn't any sort of sufficiently global optimisation only veer the ai away from behaviours resembling road rage over time?

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Re:U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers by pcurve on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:19PM (#11074693)

how do you define safety programmatically so the vehicle knows what's considered 'safe'? Measurement of g-force in sudden deceleration, acceleration, lateral movement? Heart beat per minute of passengers?

Most passenger cars are far more capable than average drivers can exploit, so there is quite a bit of room for cars to drive very aggressively from human's perspective, but completely 'safe' from machine's perspective.

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