Message from @Clay

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2018-10-03 17:57:55 UTC  

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2018-10-03 17:58:18 UTC  

do you live in a decent size metro area?

2018-10-03 17:58:30 UTC  

@Holo agreed. That’s why I’m concerned about the environmental movement. It seems to be becoming more authoritarianistic.

2018-10-03 17:58:46 UTC  

it's a religion

2018-10-03 17:58:54 UTC  

I think all these authortarians need a nap.

2018-10-03 17:59:07 UTC  

That's all it is. They're grumpy because they don't have their 10 hours.

2018-10-03 17:59:42 UTC  

I live on a college campus near (not that close) a mid sized city

2018-10-03 17:59:57 UTC  

the only skyscrapers near me are apartment homes

2018-10-03 18:00:07 UTC  

and even then that's still a couple miles down the road

2018-10-03 18:01:25 UTC  

I'm guessing car as a service will be more and more popular in metro areas, especially if automated driving goes mainstream anytime soon.

2018-10-03 18:01:28 UTC  

@Holo I live in a college town like that too.

2018-10-03 18:02:01 UTC  

Fuck automated driving

2018-10-03 18:02:03 UTC  

jesus christ

2018-10-03 18:02:05 UTC  

that is a time bomb

2018-10-03 18:02:35 UTC  

@Clay car sharing is definitely interesting, but I doubt that it’ll ever get past 25% of the population participating.

2018-10-03 18:02:48 UTC  

i can't wait for people to get all these automated cars, only to figure out that they are programmed to literally kill them if they are not worth more than what they are going to hit

2018-10-03 18:03:17 UTC  

2 automated cars, one with a family of 5 one with a single person

2018-10-03 18:03:35 UTC  

if circumstance happens that the single person must swerve into the family of 5 or die, the car will kill that person

2018-10-03 18:03:51 UTC  

despite no guarantee that swerving into the family of 5 would result in their deaths

2018-10-03 18:04:26 UTC  

I'm a firm believer in weighing the cost of life, but i also firmly believe in everyone's right to seek life and not accept death

2018-10-03 18:05:27 UTC  

Yes, the good ole trolly car problem. It's an issue.

2018-10-03 18:06:19 UTC  

If a trolly car is heading down the road towards 5 people, do you switch the track to kill one person or let it hit 5? who says you don't have time to switch the track and hurry and grab the 1 person?

2018-10-03 18:06:37 UTC  

it's that simple fact that not every moral life or death real situation has a black and white outcome

2018-10-03 18:06:38 UTC  

@Holo those situations are unlikely. Most deaths are the result of human error, like running red lights. I do agree that no one should be forced to use it.

2018-10-03 18:07:01 UTC  

pretty uber's already killed a few people salacious

2018-10-03 18:08:42 UTC  

```When its perception module gets confused, an AV should slow down. But unexpected braking can cause problems of its own: confused AVs have in the past been rear-ended (by human drivers) after slowing suddenly. Hence the delegation of responsibility for braking to human safety drivers, who are there to catch the system when an accident seems imminent.```

2018-10-03 18:08:50 UTC  

in a news article detailing the event

2018-10-03 18:09:01 UTC  

i wont quote the event itself since it's circumstantial

2018-10-03 18:09:15 UTC  

but as of now self driving cars cannot accurately perceive everything

2018-10-03 18:09:35 UTC  

which means you are relying on humans

2018-10-03 18:09:52 UTC  

which means you are not going to remove human error, only exponentiate it

2018-10-03 18:10:08 UTC  

convenience breeds laziness which breeds negligence

2018-10-03 18:10:45 UTC  

if i was in a self driving car that had a human E-Brake system, and my car kills someone

2018-10-03 18:10:47 UTC  

who is at fault

2018-10-03 18:10:51 UTC  

the car for not recognizing the person

2018-10-03 18:10:57 UTC  

or me for not pulling the E-Brake

2018-10-03 18:11:06 UTC  

and fuck if i'm going to actually admit fault, i'm going to blame the car

2018-10-03 18:11:11 UTC  

and the manufacturer is going to blame me

2018-10-03 18:11:17 UTC  

and the person killed gets no justice

2018-10-03 18:12:00 UTC  

And if you enhance the perception module to a point where it can distinguish unknown and foreign objects then you are stepping into the realm of AI which is another fun bag of problems

2018-10-03 18:14:02 UTC  

Yes there are unresolved issues with self driving cars. I’m still not sure how rural driving will work. What if someone lives off a dirt road that isn’t mapped? How would that be integrated into the system? What about roads that change? How will the cars internal mapping system be updated?