[micromacrofoot]

ehh an adult driving a car has the reasonable expectation of making safe decisions to avoid driving into a body of water… could I blame the GPS for slamming into the car in front of me or hitting a pedestrian?

I think there’s a considerable difference from giving a child instructions to electrocute themselves… they literally don’t know better. They’re not licensed or educated.

[boomboomsubban]

>an adult driving a car has the reasonable expectation of making safe decisions to avoid driving into a body of water

The famous example of that happened in the middle of the night during a storm, but you can use the other common example of being told to turn the wrong way into a one way.

The two scenarios seem similar, an ai giving dangerous directions and I suspect the difference in age and experience would not effect the precedent.

[micromacrofoot]

sure but we’re failing if we’re teaching adults to blindly follow ai

[cpuguy83]

In both situations I don't think this is "blindly following ai". If you are unfamiliar with an area, hence why you are using gps, then it is reasonable that someone does not know a street is a one way and it may not be immediately evident.

Add time of day or inclimate weather to the situation and things can get bad quickly.

[micromacrofoot]

I suppose, though I was thinking of the “dark storm” example… which sounds like almost literally following gps blind. That’s the situation drivers ed teaches you to pull over and wait.

Even one way… maybe you can make the case that the city isn’t labeling roads well, but when in doubt there are other cues like parked cars and the direction other road signs face. These are problems that also predate gps. If a passenger told me that it wasn't a one-way and they were wrong, it’s not the passenger’s fault when it comes to legality, it almost always falls on the operator.

[cpuguy83]

Yes you are right that is literally following gps blindly, and probably people should pull over.