As the other guy said. Demanding perfection is insane - we don’t demand that from human drivers either. As long as it’s better than humans (preferably by a long shot), I’m all in favour.
chakan2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You MUST DEMAND perfection from self driving cars. Mistakes cost lives.
Fuck this guy.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 year ago
chakan2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We demand perfection in a lot of fields, and we are a hell of a lot closer to it than the wild west of AI alphas we have driving around.
Aviation, Medical, Space Travel…etc…
We can get to extreme levels of quality when lives are at risk…and Driverless cars put lives at risk.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 year ago
None of those fields have achieved perfection. Airplanes crash, people die in hospitals and space shuttles. If anything, computer assistance has managed to make those safer than before.
If (when) robotcars are safer than human drivers, less people will die in traffic accidents. It’s not a perfect bar to settle on, but it’s better then the current standard.
Again, denying improvements, because it’s less than perfect is just insane.
chakan2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Denying “improvements” that cost innocent bystanders their life is the only responsible choice.
I was game for the great experiment 10 years ago. But the tech just hasn’t gotten better, and arguably is worse today.
It’s time to say enough is enough and restrict driverless tech to controlled areas.
Being simply better than the average human isn’t enough here.
supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 1 year ago
We don’t even know if they are better than humans in an actual driving environment that is more challenging higher speed roads etc…
It is insane to think the slow speed tests are representative of the entire possible scenarios. Or they might fail in driving in things like roundabouts or merging into motorways much more often than humans or who knows what edge cases.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 year ago
I agree. That will need to be proven. But when they are better than, say 90% of all drivers, it would make sense to switch. Waiting until they’re “perfect” (which is the requirement I object to), is just wasting needless lives.
supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 1 year ago
Depends on what happens when they make errors. Is it comparable to human errors or are they prone to making worse mistakes than humans on average in terms of the conseguences.
They might be 99.99% perfect but in 0.01% of cases cause massive car pileups in motorways (for example) due to reasons.
A proper risk analysis based on a controlled transition would be better to be done first.
bob_wiley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 year ago
Yeah, legislation and requirements for a self driving to be allowed on the road will have to be updated. But an automated car can’t drink and drive, or make the intentional decision to run someone over because they hate them. I don’t see how vehicular homicide would apply.
If somebody reprograms a car to murder someone, they are at fault. In all other cases - accidents - the insurance would have to shift from the driver to the car creator.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Perfection right out of the gate is impossible, but I think SF is too big for these kinds of tests. Use smaller towns if anything
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I don’t know about “perfection”, but we should at least aim to be better than most human drivers.
I’d be comfortable holding robot drivers to the same standard as human drivers if there were similar levels of accountability. That said, I think the current standards for licensing human drivers are far too low. Tons of people on the road are simply not capable of driving safely, consistently, and legally. I would support measures to raise the bar for human drivers as well, but since that is extremely unlikely, we can at least establish better standards for the future.
Rolder@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Just hold the CEO directly liable for any deaths or injuries. Like someone gets hit? That’s a reckless driving charge for the CEO. They would get perfect real quick.
PHLAK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unfortunately that’s not how software development works.
Rolder@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I’m aware, the idea was more tongue in cheek then anything
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fortunately that’s not how software development works
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 year ago
As a pedestrian, I’d sooner trust a self-driving car to ID and stop for me than I’d trust a human to do the same. Humans make way more mistakes than these cars do. It just doesn’t make the news when humans fuck up cause we do it all the damn time. But accidents are so rare for self-driving cars that every time one happens, it makes headlines, and then a bunch of idiots show up in the comments to throw shade at them when they’re much worse drivers themselves.
And then more idiots show up and upvote them.
DeadlineX@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah a lot of people drive selfishly and dangerously. Until we get alternative transportation, however, more stringent licensing will just condemn poorer folks to worse poverty and possibly being cast to the streets.
We need better public transportation before we can cripple people’s ability to get where they need to be. Including work.
guacupado@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve always thought that self-driving cars won’t be mainstream until local departments of transportation are actively aiding in surrounding recognition for these vehicles. Cities will need to make sure their paint is maintained much more often so that yellow and white lines are much more easily recognized by AI. Also need more of those LED street lights with the hoods so that the colors of the light better stand out. I’m sure there are also better way to make signs more readable to AI as well, but all of these needs to be done with the help from local governments. Autonomous vehicles get better the more other autonomous vehicles are on the road.
themajesticdodo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How can a robot be as accountable as a human? You going to threaten to send it to jail?
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I’d want it to be regulated like other safety features. If they shipped a car with faulty brakes or any other safety defects, it would be a legal issue. Fines, recalls, etc. Ideally it should be enough that half-assing it would put them out of business.