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Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety's Sake
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This is interesting; the ethical dilemmas surrounding the so-called “internet of things” and self-driving cars in particular. What is a self-driving car programmed to do when faced with either a collision with an oncoming car or a collision with a cyclist? |
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I'll bring back up what I mentioned last time we discussed autonomous cars round these parts: Self-driving cars are going to have to be programmed who to kill, basically.
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It'll still be orders of magnitude better than it is now with legions of dip****s invading the bike lanes while Snapchatting.
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The end-game is that roads will become "driverless car only" venues. Bikes will be banned -- relegated to specific facilities that go nowhere, or to trails (MTBs and gravel forest service roads).
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That said, I imagine it could be somewhat more comforting if a computer kills your family member, and the logs of that decision are preserved and open to analysis so you can understand the logic, ethical backing and logic behind it, as opposed to getting mowed down by a drunk.
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Year - 2024
Accident Report: Autonomous car collides with cyclist.
Investigation: Data download from autonomous car: Downloading... Downloading... Downloading... Downloading complete. Resulting response from autonomous car... "I did not see him, the sun was in my camera eye." William |
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Will I be able to do that?
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But maybe there's hope. Computer programs are generally good at being predictable. Once the programming is understood, maybe cyclists can "hack the system" - maybe one scheme would be finding some way of tricking the car into thinking that the cyclist is a celebrity, or a nun, or somebody that the car specifically is programmed not to kill. |
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The driving computer will be able to do an instantaneous calculation on which death will have the least financial liability.
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that poses an interesting legislative and legal conundrum.
....and a new curriculum for philosophy professors to keep that tenure hope alive! |
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HAL 9000: Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error. |
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HAL actually ain't that far off. A computer that was infallible, until given contradictory instructions by his makers to the classified nature of the Jupiter mission.
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HAL 9000: Let me put it this way... The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
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It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi. --Peter Schickele |
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(BTW the last example is an example of a "prisoners dilemma" on the part of the cyclist) |
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