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mk  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should your robot driver kill you to save a child's life?

    But beyond the hypothetical lets talk market forces, how eager would you be to drive a car that may kill you to save a stranger? I think id be upgrading the firmware on that baby pretty quickly. Yea i'll take the "Save the owner and his family in all scenarios" option along with the 21" alloys.

Good point. Perhaps the cars could have a customizable 'martyr' setting, which can be dialed up from 'chipmunk' to 'kindergarten class'. To make things interesting, maybe the current setting could be displayed on your back bumper.





Kaius  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Set them to "homicidal" and put them in an abandoned multistory parking lot! We could have Marque vs Marque deathmatches!

It could be everything Robot Wars promised to be...

OftenBen  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    To make things interesting, maybe the current setting could be displayed on your back bumper.

I like that idea. How vested are you in self-preservation?