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RE: Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from. - MIT Technology Review
I do not like the idea of a self-driving cars... what if the system has a failure ?What happens to the pedestrians and about the security?
Of course there will be catastrophic failures, both software and hardware resulting in death. The alternative is what we have now. Human drivers. Unlike the human driver, the robotic vehicle will not drive drunk, fatigued, distracted, too inexperienced, or too old and infirm. No road rage, no daydreaming, rubbernecking and all the other human foibles too numerous to mention. Presently we have 35,000 fatalities in US due to human error. When machine intelligence matures and takes over control of our vehicles we will still have fatalities but at a fraction of what people are presently causing.