Re:Uber’s Vision of Self-Driving Cars Begins to Blur
by TangoTrotFox on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:45AM
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You're not considering why the AI turns it over the human. It's rarely about some crazy imminent emergency where if the human doesn't respond instantly and with super-human reflexes, it's all over.
In reality it's mostly just the AI expected one thing, and observed another - so something's not working right and it seeks a disengagement. California requires companies to quantify disengagements and most go a step further and specify the reason for the disengagement. I think the reason for this is precisely because of your intuition -- thinking that disengagement means imminent danger. Even for companies with relatively large numbers of disengagements, there were generally 0 that involved any danger whatsoever.
In reality it's mostly just the AI expected one thing, and observed another - so something's not working right and it seeks a disengagement. California requires companies to quantify disengagements and most go a step further and specify the reason for the disengagement. I think the reason for this is precisely because of your intuition -- thinking that disengagement means imminent danger. Even for companies with relatively large numbers of disengagements, there were generally 0 that involved any danger whatsoever.