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kleinbl00 · 3544 days ago · link · · parent · post: Should your robot driver kill you to save a child's life?
Articles like this are going to be more and more common as journalists go "driverless cars!" without making the slightest bit of effort to understand the mechanics - the logic of driverless cars. Collision avoidance has been in place in autonomous robots for 30+ years. The time for ethical discussions was then, not now, as the codification of vehicular behavior relies on code and decisions that has been real-world tested since Carter was president.