Comments on: Cars Will Drive Themselves in 10 Years http://ellisbenus.com/ideas/cars-will-drive-themselves-in-10-years/ Web Design Columbia, MO, Web Developer and Web Guru Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Logic http://ellisbenus.com/ideas/cars-will-drive-themselves-in-10-years/comment-page-1/#comment-21814 Logic Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:20:11 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/cars-will-drive-themselves-in-10-years/#comment-21814 Dweh, you would sacrifice the lies of innocent bystanders to save the life of a delinquent child? If the child runs into the street and is hit, that is a clear case of survival of the fittest. That child will be less likely to pass on their run-into-the-street genes to future generations. Dweh, you would sacrifice the lies of innocent bystanders to save the life of a delinquent child? If the child runs into the street and is hit, that is a clear case of survival of the fittest. That child will be less likely to pass on their run-into-the-street genes to future generations.

]]> By: Dweh http://ellisbenus.com/ideas/cars-will-drive-themselves-in-10-years/comment-page-1/#comment-1449 Dweh Thu, 22 May 2008 15:14:48 +0000 http://www.ellisbenus.com/ideas/cars-will-drive-themselves-in-10-years/#comment-1449 This is perfectly well and good as long as MS is not writing the OS for the thing to run on. It kind of frightens me to think of the catastrophe of your car swerving into oncoming traffic because the sensor on the left side of the car (right for you Europeans) says that you are too far from the center line erroneously. The other problem is that a computer has no capability to make choices. If a crash is inevitable then the computer will decide to protect the driver and passengers of the car. Well, what if your choices are hitting a tree that just fell or running over a small child that just stepped onto the road from behind an embankment. The computer will "decide" that the child has less impact on the car. Computers would likely be able to react faster (we hope), but there still remain physical laws that the computer must operate the car within. The moral decisions that a human can make on the fly are not programmable at this point and therefore we should never (until there is some new breakthrough in technology or technique) let computers drive our cars. You might say that the price the little girl pays is dwarfed by the astounding number of lives this would save, but I will let you justify that to her parents. This nears the forbidden experiment in moral ramifications. Hope that shows some of the potential problems/downsides we have yet to consider with this issue. D This is perfectly well and good as long as MS is not writing the OS for the thing to run on. It kind of frightens me to think of the catastrophe of your car swerving into oncoming traffic because the sensor on the left side of the car (right for you Europeans) says that you are too far from the center line erroneously.

The other problem is that a computer has no capability to make choices. If a crash is inevitable then the computer will decide to protect the driver and passengers of the car. Well, what if your choices are hitting a tree that just fell or running over a small child that just stepped onto the road from behind an embankment. The computer will “decide” that the child has less impact on the car. Computers would likely be able to react faster (we hope), but there still remain physical laws that the computer must operate the car within. The moral decisions that a human can make on the fly are not programmable at this point and therefore we should never (until there is some new breakthrough in technology or technique) let computers drive our cars.

You might say that the price the little girl pays is dwarfed by the astounding number of lives this would save, but I will let you justify that to her parents. This nears the forbidden experiment in moral ramifications.

Hope that shows some of the potential problems/downsides we have yet to consider with this issue.

D

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