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Originally Posted by cstreit
This is like the old morality question... Lets say you're in a car with no brakes. There is a woman with a baby in your path - and on the sidewalk a man.
You can swerve onto the sidewalk and miss the woman and baby, but then you kill the guy. However in this case - you have actively chosen to kill him - vs. doing nothing and killing the mother and child.
What do you do?
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I can hear an old professor of mine:
"You are driving a car with no brakes? Get out of my class!"
He would then smile and ask us to ask questions:
"Do you know the woman and child, are you married to her?"
"The man, do you know him?"
"Does the horn work - use in time? Which is farther away, the man or the woman and child?"
The man is on a side walk, the woman in a road - drive around them or into a building."
"Can you turn off the car, down shift (this was a while ago) or jam into park/reverse."
On and on. I miss Professor Joe.
I can tell you that the automation that goes into auto pilots and autonomous aircraft is a cakewalk compared to the self-driving problem.