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Re:Waymo raises first external investment round by notatoad on Monday March 02, 2020 @08:25PM (#22470981)
It was on my driving test in Alberta 15 years ago. The correct answer is to remember that the people in the car are protected by a big cage of metal, and pedestrians aren't.

I think the actual question was whether or not you should drive into a wall instead of hitting a pedestrian, not drive off a cliff. But hitting a pedestrian was definitely not the right answer.

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Re:Waymo raises first external investment round by bagacrap on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:08PM (#22471208)
I mean, if that's the answer you want to program into a robot car, it doesn't sound hard to do.

Luckily I've never been faced with this choice, and if I did have a fraction of a second to decide I have no idea what would happen. Doesn't stop me from driving though.

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