[svandamme]

Well if the premise of the article is true, that the Tesla did steer into the other lane.

Then it brings into play the Morals and Ethics discussion of AI driving..


EG , Who can program the AI to choose between driving itself against a brick wall vs evading the brick wall, but plowing over a single pedestrian.

A human's reaction behind the wheel is 1 thing.
But To program a self driving car to decide such things.. is a huge liability issue to those who program it.

Either
The car swerves and kills the pedestrian... or not.
But where are the priorities.

Single occupant in the car vs single pedestrian..
It would be highly immoral to let the AI run over the pedestrian to preserve the single occupant.
But what if the pedestrian is 90 years old, and the occupant 20 with whole life ahead?

Or what if the pedestrian is a single mum with 4 kids at home
and the occupant is a 70 year old widower without kids or family?

4 old timers en route to bingo, vs young couple having a stroll?

4 youngsters in a car, off to a party vs 4 oldtimer having a walk outside?

You just cannot program it to kill the pedestrian at all times.. that would leave the company that produces such a car open to litigation.
And Nobody wants to take responsibility for any kind of decision making processes that will do a split second decision who lives or dies..

At the same time, Who will buy into an autopilot.. that plows into brick walls and decides your survival is secondary to others?


If you ask me.. I will never accept autopilot, and not even accident avoid auto steering.. Not in any car I drive.