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by tripzilch 3007 days ago
So when the road sign says 35mph it means the official speed limit is exactly 38.5mph?

Because sometimes that 10% is argued as a margin of error for humans supposedly not paying attention how fast they're going, but if that's the case then there's really no reason why the robot shouldn't drive strictly under the speed limit.

If you explicitly programmed a fleet of robots to deliberately break the law, then I think it's not enough consequences if you just fine for the first robot that gets caught breaking that law, while the programmers adjust the code of the fleet to not get caught again.

Consequences should be more severe if there's a whole fleet of robots programmed to break the law, even if the law catches the first robot right away and the rest of the fleet is paused immediately.

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Should be noted that speedometers display a higher number than actual speed. So if cop flags driver at 38.5 mph, there's a good chance their speedometer showed 40+ mph.