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But what does it do if five pedestrians jump in front of the car and it has to turn and kill a different one in order to save the five?
It explodes, killing only the environment-ruining automobile driver. (Please note: tongue-in-cheek.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg
These technologies need to gain the trust of the drivers before they can become mainstream.
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Those things sneak up on you! It's surprising how much cyclists and pedestrians rely on engine noise.
I wouldn't be surprised if groups that work with visually impaired people, for example, lobbied to get a minimum noise level added to regulations.
Better approach: Install a small wireless sender in the car that broadcasts at a given frequency.
Then allow people who want a minimum noise level to buy a small receiver that broadcasts those signals (or another type of indication signal) to a headset.
This allows you to keep the noise level down and at the same time provides "notifications" to the visually impaired.
Volvo has this feature -- dubbed City Safety -- already on the road. It may seem snobbish to some, but I'd never let myself, my wife, and my future children drive anything but a Mercedes or Volvo. Between the two of them, they've been behind nearly every safety system developed in the last 40 years. I feel good about knowing that our hard work has let us put my wife in a car, for her 30 minute commute, that has 12 ai…
Alerting driver of potential pedestrian = good Automatically making a decision (that the human is better at making) and potentially causing an accident due to a random sudden stop = bad
Yikes. I like safety features like airbags and strong cages that won't collapse on the driver in a crash. I don't want my car making driving decisions for me. It may be done in the name of safety but until they invent a car that can't break, I don't trust it not to cause more problems than it helps.
But what does it do if five pedestrians jump in front of the car and it has to turn and kill a different one in order to save the five?
Alerting driver of potential pedestrian = good Automatically making a decision (that the human is better at making) and potentially causing an accident due to a random sudden stop = bad
What about when the car really is better at making that decision? IMHO, we are few scarce decades away from cars that will just be plain better drivers than the median meatbag.
Yikes. I like safety features like airbags and strong cages that won't collapse on the driver in a crash. I don't want my car making driving decisions for me. It may be done in the name of safety but until they invent a car that can't break, I don't trust it not to cause more problems than it helps.
http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2011/07/20/safety-group-sa...