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Originally Posted by MattTuck
This is precisely it. If you lose someone because of a drunk driver, you blame the fact that he was drinking, not the precise situation that led to the actual accident. It is easier to parse that way. If an autonomous car kills someone you love, even if in aggregate they are safer for everyone, there is still a question of what caused it. Oh, our neural network algorithm, told the car it was safe to merge. Why? well, because our training data set that the algorithm learned from didn't have this particular situation, and did not recognize the danger...
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Every self driving accident should be reviewed and learned from - something that is uniquely possible with a driver that has a hard drive.
But every accident involving a robot isn't because the robot's programming is deficient.