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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by joefourier on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:58PM (#16621057)
As far as I know all self-driving car programs use some form of machine learning, so they aren't exactly "pre-programmed" in the sense of good old-fashioned AI based on strict, pre-determined rules.

What exactly do you mean by "deal with driving"? Drive without a single accident, ever? That's obviously impossible in practice. Drive better than humans, who in 2016 killed 37,461 people in the US alone? I don't see how that would be impossible - human drivers have a limited field of view, slow response times (average time to break is ~2.3 seconds), and are frequently distracted, sleepy, drunk, etc.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by jakeogh on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:57PM (#16623082)
Let me know when self driving cars can get sleepy, distracted or drunk. Until then, I'm much more concerned with "stop before hitting things 101". This "pre programmed cars must be better than X" is getting old fast.

This is one of those self correcting problems, and it's going to be fixed way faster than the startups pushing this "smart machines" propaganda are going to like.

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