[image] Uber Self-Driving Car Struck and Killed Arizona Woman While in Autonomous Mode Last night a woman was struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona. She later died of her injuries in the hospital.

[image] oldtimer-11: There are leagal and ethical problems to be worked out. For example Should a self driving tractor - trailer run over a pedestrian if the alternative is hitting a school bus full of kids whose driver ran a red light? Because you brought up programming, it seems possible …

No, it won;t, it is just another traffic accident. A pedestrian struck and killed in Arizona would not gather national attention if it was driven by a regular driver.

It’s just that one is news and the other is not. Unusual accidents tend to get reported and discussed more than ones that happen all the time.

Sensors in cars are not able to resolve to occupant count. What they can do is gauge size, speed and trajectory. I expect an algorithm to choose the path of least destruction based on those factors. For example, a larger size is likely to equate to more mass but it won’t distinguish between a school…

[image] TwinTurbo: Sensors in cars are not able to resolve to occupant count. What they can do is gauge size, speed and trajectory. I expect an algorithm to choose the path of least destruction based on those factors. If an AD vehicle can’t “count” the number of fastened seatbelts and/or (app…

Not yet. But the days of cars talking to each other are coming. Your car will be reporting its pax count, and it will be receiving the pax count of everything around it, among other things (such as automatically making a path for an ambulance without having to stop, because every car will know where…

At that point, we won’t be discussing decisions involving least impactful choice. Once we have full autonomy and inter-vehicle communications, there won’t likely be any surprises to contend with. Even when we insert unpredictable human pedestrians along the roadway. Decisions will be distributed wit…

[image] Waterbuff: And if the programming means that decision is made by choosing to likely injure/kill the occupant (instead of the multiple persons), do people really want that AD car? Your understanding of AI and programming in general is obviously limited. The A in AI means artificial. I…

Last night a woman was struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona

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shanonia April 2, 2018, 7:06pm 176

I think twin turbo meant sensors in one vehicle can not discern the number of occupants of another larger vehicle; big truck or school bus filled with kids. Or empty school bus vs. filled.

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