Self-Driving Cars May Now Let You Choose Who To Save In A Crash

[FrodosNewPet]

People want your car to kill you, not them. And they want their car to kill you, not them.
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Self-Driving Cars May Now Let You Choose Who To Save In A Crash

Previous studies found that most people think a self-driving car should be utilitarian, taking actions to minimise the amount of overall harm, which might mean sacrificing its own passengers in certain situations to save lives of pedestrians.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/self-driving-cars-may-now-let-you-choose-who-to-save-in-a-crash-1765701

World | Press Trust of India | Updated: October 23, 2017 00:24 IST

London: Scientists have developed a system that lets users of driver-less cars take the moral decision of who should survive a potential car crash.

Previous studies found that most people think a self-driving car should be utilitarian, taking actions to minimise the amount of overall harm, which might mean sacrificing its own passengers in certain situations to save lives of pedestrians.

However, while people agreed to this in principle, they also said they would never get in a car that was prepared to kill them.

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Researchers designed a dial that switches a car's setting along a spectrum ranging from "full altruist" to "full egoist", with the middle setting being impartial.

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I am not sure if this is real, but it is within the realm of possibilities. It seems to me to be a really bad idea, and would certainly complicate the assignment of liability in a crash to a mind boggling degree.

[madaboutharry]

1. Who dies in a self-driving car crash?

It reads like the script of a science fiction movie.

[Docreed2003]

2. Sorry Dave...but I cant do that...my programming chose you...

[BeyondGeography]

3. Lets call the whole thing off

[Iggo]

4. Oh may they now?

[VMA131Marine]

5. Are these cars also coming with pre-cognition?

How can they predict the outcome of an event in terms of who will live and who will die.

[Thor_MN]

8. Imagine that your choices are a head-on collision with a garbage truck or mowing down children on

the sidewalk. The garbage truck is barreling down the street, even if you could stop, it will demolish your car. Do you continue straight ahead, or steer on to the sidewalk where a line of kindergartners are walking in a line holding hands? What is a split second decision for a human is an eternity for a computer. It has lots of time to decide if plowing through Mrs. Anderson's morning class, which would barely damage the car, or steering straight, destroying the car and potentially it's occupants, is the better choice.

I have gotten into a skid going around a snowy corner and had time to straighten the wheels - there was no way that I wasn't going to hit the curb. If I went in with the wheels turned, it would have damaged the steering, minimum. There are times when the momentum of the vehicles guarantee a collision, with time to make decisions about how the collision is going to proceed.

Coming around a corner, should the car hit the little old lady crossing the street with a cane or the telephone pole? Altruistic or Egoistic?

[tanyev]

6. Ive got a bad feeling about this.

[Locrian]

7. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. - n/t