It was just a matter of time before we had to deal with the reality that self-driving will be safer on average, but will still randomly kill people in a more noticeable way than the human error killing us every day. Get out your trolley cars and switches, folks. It's ethics timehttps://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/980856376195825664 …
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
Philosophy: so sometimes it goes haywire & ends up- Me: do the thing that kills fewer people Philosophy: but it's very salient th- Me: do the thing that kills fewer people Philosophy: but the human element of control is- Me: do the thing Me: that kills Me: fewer people
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Would you forego a self-driving car that might kill you even if you're more likely to be killed in a car you're driving yourself?
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Prob the most important point is that this currently moot, since self-driving cars will not have the kind of situational awareness to make these calls for a very, very long time, and just the basic "avoid or soften all collisions to whatever extent possible" saves a lot of lives
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Replying to @webdevMason @zmeysa and
But in any case, the idea that you as a driver in a suddenly lethal situation would have the time or cognitive acuity to make what you would later consider a reasonable judgment call re: choosing your life or a pedestrian's seems reeeeally misguided
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Given the car is just prioritizing avoiding/softening collisions, and for some reason the rider can set any sort of preferences around that(?), it is *still* unreasonable to expect anything less than a massive increase in fatalities avoided entirely. This is not a trolley problem
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A situation in which (a) you have time to make a reasonable judgment + (b) but the car somehow *doesn't* have time to act to eliminate fatalities altogether + (c) you somehow have the same info inputs as the car + (d) the car doesn't act in a way you like = not the real world.
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