The programmer will not make the decision. He will create the program that performs as directed by those making the decisions.

So what decision would you make and how long do you think you would take to make the decision compared to how fast a computer can make that decision?

Me and mine are hanging red and green lights outdoors. Now there's a dependable technology.

That was a very intelligent response. You are smarter than the average bear to go down that path rather than the obvious think of about how many lives will be saved. The fact is you as a human do not have the capability to make such a precise calculation as the on board computer does especially within that time frame. My guess is by the time your mind processed the situation you would not have realized there was options and probably would have slammed on the brakes - period. The reality of this situation is some algorithm will be programed in. I for one would not like to be the one that makes that decision to be incorporated into the software. On the other hand what will AI bring to the party ? Thus I think autonomous vehicles are farther away than we think. Not for technology but for morality.

.....and as for Dick Tracy and his two way wrist radio.
What nonsence that was!

What if you lose your license?
 

You might change your mind when faced with losing your drivers license due to advanced age. You might prefer an autonomous car to having to beg for rides.

What decision would you make is a good question, people think computers should be infallible, they never will be, but, they can always be reprogrammed to fix a problem. How do you fix stupid?

Do you think the computer will let me drive?

They said the Wright Brothers were crazy too, and Henry Ford, and Nikola Tesla...

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if you don't want to drive in the crazy traffic of The Villages anymore getting around is difficult. HATE BEGGING FOR RIDES. investigating sumter transit.

I am not there yet on self driving vehicles but......it would be a godsend for people with special needs.


He who dies with the most toys....wins!

We tend to question anything new
 

Self driving cars. Human driven cars we can easily research the accident rate per 100,000 miles. The death rate per 100,000 miles.

For self driving cars, for a machine, we would not find what a human can do, does, to be acceptable.

There was that event where a self driving car hit a lady walking a bike on a dark road. Apparently the self driving car recorded the video. I saw the story several times I don't recall a single person wondering it a human would have avoided hitting the lady who chose to cross the road at a very poor place to do so.

I am not defending the machine. I am not am not a techno-nerd. Just trying to point out that nothing is perfect.