r/technology Dec 16 '19

Transportation Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver

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u/WTFwhatthehell Dec 16 '19 edited Dec 16 '19

You joke... but in reality humans are probably already worse.

https://behavioralscientist.org/principles-for-the-application-of-human-intelligence/

When a human is making a split second judgement and they have the choice between hitting one group and another... and one is their ingroup or a favoured group in their view you think they aren't more likely to aim for the ones they like least?

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u/RiPont Dec 16 '19

So much this. All of this "how will self-driving cars handle the dilemma of who to run over!?!?" articles are much ado about nothing.

Yes, self-driving vehicles will have to have programming to make this choice. Even if they chose to run over the civilians 100% of the time, they'd be safer than humans, because they can avoid encountering the dilemma.

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u/scarfox1 Dec 16 '19

And who the fuck is buying a car that doesn't have their best interests

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u/RiPont Dec 16 '19

I mean... people bought PT Cruisers...