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by CobrastanJorji 762 days ago
This feels like the "self-driving car engineers are taking the trolley problem into account" fallacy. There is absolutely no code in these things taking into account the laws of at-fault traffic accidents in their locale. The basic problem of "1. get where you're trying to go, and 2. don't crash into things" is already hard enough. There is no "dive onto the sidewalk to avoid an out of control bus" algorithm, nor is there a system to count the people on the bus and the sidewalk and compare them, nor is there a physics sim examining potential future spinal integrity.

You know what the car does if there's a motorcycle in front of it? It brakes. You know what it does if there's a weird bus coming across lanes towards it? It brakes. Driving normally is a hard enough problem. Nobody's designing these things to handle movie car chases.