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I never cease to be surprised at how optimistic people are about speculative tech like full service driverless cars, and really tech in general. Why do people even expect driverless cars to have less accidents?
On moral scoring, accident decision windows are typically in the tenths of second. You all used the internet, have you ever seen a connection getting established, much less returning data, in this kind of a time frame?
Then, how do you expect a car to perform a full moral scoring of a person when all it can see is a vague shape of a bicycle on the radar a second before impact?
In practice, it's unlikely that any moral judgement above "minimize casualties" would be possible to implement in any world worth living in.
On moral scoring, accident decision windows are typically in the tenths of second. You all used the internet, have you ever seen a connection getting established, much less returning data, in this kind of a time frame?
Then, how do you expect a car to perform a full moral scoring of a person when all it can see is a vague shape of a bicycle on the radar a second before impact?
In practice, it's unlikely that any moral judgement above "minimize casualties" would be possible to implement in any world worth living in.