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Re:Two self-driving cars involved in 'near miss' in California by viraptor on Friday June 26, 2015 @06:47AM (#9783448)
Algorithms preventing bad things? That was the whole premise of Minority Report, wasn't it?
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Re:Two self-driving cars involved in 'near miss' in California by maxerickson on Friday June 26, 2015 @06:58AM (#9783484)
No, Minority Report had psychics (the title comes from having 3 of them, so when one of them sees something different than the other 2, there is a "Minority Report").
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Re:Two self-driving cars involved in 'near miss' in California by viraptor on Sunday June 28, 2015 @06:41PM (#9795400)
Is 3 psychics really different than 3 algorithms? Safety critical software does get implemented sometimes in 2 different ways to cross-check sanity at runtime. Which does of course come up with issues like which side to trust and what to do if they disagree.
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