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by PH95VuimJjqBqy 851 days ago
well if we're going to play that game, what if the human suffers a medical emergency!

or what if they're driving a bus and they have to keep above 60 mph!

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I guess it's my fault, I didn't list every single contingency possible...

1 comments

Well yeah, it is. This is an edge case in self-driving cars, same as it could be an edge case for humans.
Probably the main point that the software should function at least as well as a non-impaired capable human still stands…