404 Error - The Atlantic

/the-ethics-of-autonomous-cars

  • @xporte
    xporte
    1
    @fil
    1

    The Ethics of Autonomous Cars - Patrick Lin - The Atlantic
    ▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-ethics-of-autonomous-cars/280360

    If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite lane and drive around it. But an automated car might come to a full stop, as it dutifully observes traffic laws that prohibit crossing a double-yellow line. This unexpected move would avoid bumping the object in front, but then cause a crash with the human drivers behind it.

    Should we trust robotic cars to share our road, just because they are programmed to obey the law and avoid crashes?

    #Google_car #voiture_sans_conducteur

    xporte
    • @fil
      Fil

      Autonomous cars may face (...) #no-win_scenarios too, and we would hope their operating programs would choose the lesser evil. But it would be an unreasonable act of faith to think that programming issues will sort themselves out without a deliberate discussion about ethics, such as which choices are better or worse than others. Is it better to save an adult or child? What about saving two (or three or ten) adults versus one child? We don’t like thinking about these uncomfortable and difficult choices, but programmers may have to do exactly that.

      Il m’est arrivé récemment d’avoir le choix entre écraser un cycliste, prendre un camion de front, ou freiner brutalement et me faire taper par la voiture derrière. Avant de piler, j’ai eu une espèce de flash conscient de calcul des possibilités, dans la seconde qu’il m’a fallu pour me décider. (La voiture qui me suivait est repartie en dépanneuse.) Peut-être que l’algo de google m’aurait précipité sur le camion ?

      Fil
    Écrire un commentaire