tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post4250292609667602708..comments2024-03-29T10:51:27.752+13:00Comments on Not PC: The Moral Case for Self-Driving CarsPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-80176745893567513122015-07-23T22:26:01.878+12:002015-07-23T22:26:01.878+12:00I am not quite sure how successful self driving ca...I am not quite sure how successful self driving cars will be as when you imagine thousands of them on road, you can’t simply expect everything to be normal. My brother who works for a <a href="http://www.duilawyerlosangeles.com/" rel="nofollow">DUI lawyer</a> was telling me that thought the number of drunk or distracted driving cases will significantly reduce.<br />alia52naliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15101879498915201401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-32447786795113490902015-05-22T19:19:23.973+12:002015-05-22T19:19:23.973+12:00Thanks a lot for sharing. You have done a brillian...Thanks a lot for sharing. You have done a brilliant job.<a href="http://www.bzfyrj.com/used-cars-from-japan-proved-beyond-money-saving-deals-for-japanese-used-car-exporters-and-dealers/" rel="nofollow">dealing used cars</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09938224130985614287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-47303142512129259802014-08-28T19:08:59.104+12:002014-08-28T19:08:59.104+12:00"So as a first approximation, autonomous vehi..."So as a first approximation, autonomous vehicles should be programmed to choose actions that aim to protect their occupants."<br /><br />This brings up some issues. The programmer is now the one making the moral decisions, albeit from a distance in time and location. He is the one whose choices in coding cause the actions of the self-driving car. Remember, the car makes no decisions, it can only do as it is programmed to do. It is a mindless automaton. So, in reality the programmer is responsible for what happens. There is where the responsiblity and liability lie. Watch these mercantilist swine duck out from that one by using political pull to have the laws written to poke liability onto the "little people"- the ones who have not got deep enough pockets to fight city hall.<br /><br />As far as the claim that these types of "moral choice" incident are quite rare, the author is fooling himself. <br /><br />If you do not own and control your own car, then what you are dealing with is a version of public transport under a central authority with all the issues and problems for you that necessarily entails. <br /><br />As for this increasing of the road capacity by reducing headway between vehicles and having them cross busy intersections without hesitation at speed (the idea is that they do not stop but are instead timed such that each misses the other), is it worth the chance? Is it something that you'd put to the test on a regular basis with your life? What about your children's? How lucky do you feel today? After all, this is all only about as good as the nerd what wrote the software. Hopefully he wasn't having a blue screen of death day. But just imagine the scene. Three second headways at 50kph. A busy collision cross roads. The cars coming into the intersection intended to continue on their trajectories through the intersection at speed. The timing, as one crosses directly in front of another, has to be perfect. Perfect every time. Perfect. Nothing else will do. Perfect. Now think about that "moral choice" coding again. <br /><br />This is not the best way to go. It would be far preferable to place autonomous vehicles on their own separated grade. <br /><br />One more point. The publically available vehicles (the ones that the author expects to serve 30 or more "travellers" a day) will end up looking exactly as you'd expect- interiors cursed with litter, excrement, rubbish, junk, vomit, graffiti, unpleasant odours, vandalised interiors, sticky stuff on the seats and all that sort of nastiness. In one or two design iterations the interior design will have degenerated into the grotty anti-vandal public toilet style complete with inescapable advertising and audio public service messages for your safety, citizen. Meanwhile the exteriors will be ugly to the point of offensive, intended to be as gharish as possible to call attention to the "service"- think franchise, think low rent front of mind attention seeking. Take a look at the Google "car" thing. It IS ugly. <br /><br />And this is all justified on the appeal to safety! So was communism. <br /><br />Amit Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-59966917584905105942014-08-28T11:01:59.686+12:002014-08-28T11:01:59.686+12:00As a techie I'd jump to embrace self driving c...As a techie I'd jump to embrace self driving cars. However as a libertarian I am not quite as excited as it should be clear that a large amount of autonomy and privacy will be surrendered when automated cars become the norm.<br /><br />It is easy to see how government would take control of your vehicle because they'd want a word with you or unpaid bills result in you being refused travel. Lifting logs tells authorities where you have been and when. (Yes, I know largely already the case with license plate scanners)<br /><br />A few years back Electronic Stability Control on cars was the next new novel feature. Now Government is making Electronic Stability Control compulsory on new vehicles. It is not hard to imagine what will happen with self driving cars.Dintherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09444894238003853527noreply@blogger.com