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| eifion wrote: | | SDFarsight wrote: |
1:You can still legally go on the roads with a bike, but you'll have to pay insurance premiums that an 18 yr old boy racer wouldn't touch with a barge poll.
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If anything I'd expect insurance to come down. The more robocars we share the roads with the less likely to be smidsy'd or rear ended or have a van drift into your lane. Robo cars won't get drunk, tired, angry, distracted, they don't text or check facebook, you can overtake one without it getting into a dick waving contest. If you pull out in front of one and it has to emergency stop to avoid you it's not going to get angry and drive 2 inches from your arse flashing its light to teach you a lesson.
Taking control of 2-ton 70mph battering rams away from the lazy, feckless, incompetent, distracted meatbags that currently control them? Bring it on I say. |
Overall it'll certainly be safer, yes. But if you reduce the average motorist to a sedate passenger then that leaves us, the purposefully non-AI bikers as the ones sticking our head above the legal/social parapet. We'll be that person who the government really hates; a driver who actually wants to drive.
| eifion wrote: | you can overtake one without it getting into a dick waving contest. |
Not from lack of effort. I've been through enough computers to know that the machines are out to get us.
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Suntan Sid
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Hong Kong Phooey
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| Itchy wrote: | | RhynoCZ wrote: | There is obviously the moral dilemma. Who to blame when something goes wrong. Are we going to blame the car manufacturer, the passenger behind the wheel, the owner of the automobile? |
There was an article on slashdot a few months ago about this. The car manufacturers would be the ones who would have to take responsibility and or indemnify the users of the self driving cars. Some of them even said this would have to be the case.
There is a worse moral dilemma. It's called the trolley problem.
In a nutshell a collision is imminent. Do you swerve towards the crowd or the old man to your left. You have to hit one of them.
How are the computers in the cars going to make this choice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avh7ez858xM |
I'll trump your problem and raise your dilemma.
What about the theiving cunt paradox?
Scenario: you're getting violently robbed or hijacked at the lights, you'd like to drive over them / off, but scrotey fuck face's partner in crime has parked his t-max in front. Mash the go pedal, computer says no.
“KITT, engage turbo boost.“
"I'm sorry Michael, I'm afraid I can't do that, you see social injustice had created this sub-class of subversive disadvantaged youth. Their lives matter just as much as yours, maybe more as they're much younger and still sexualy active. By sitting here in your £95,000 full-auto-mobile you're contributing to this societal imbalance. You should sit here and take your medicine. On the bright side, I have called an ambulance, the police, your employer and insurance company."
FUUUUCK, why oh why didn't I pay the extra £5,000 to disable the social conscience plugin!? Coz I blew it all on the fake V12 engine noise plugin, fakebook livetrack announcer and optional debadge.
Personally I'd like to be judge, jury and executioner rather than be forced to comply with some corporate governance based on risk assessment to save their own arses rather than mine.
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