Comment on Followup on the vehicle "kill switch" mandated by the Infrastructure Bill

• HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When it’s your partner or child that’s god an arterial bleed, you’ll do it too.

  You will bleed to death from a severed artery in under five minutes unless you can stop the bleeding. It’s going to take at least that long for an ambulance to show up.

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  • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t disagree. Would do the same thing. Bit it’s not a good reason.

    Exactly why driverless cars are required. Humans are bad at driving. Emotional and self preservation

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    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Driverless cars would be worse; programming the kind of judgement calls into an expert system is… Not easy, and likely won’t work. They will probably do well with routine driving, when everyone else is also using an expert system to drive, but in an emergency? How do you convince your car that it’s an emergency? And what keeps someone from, say, lying? Like, I’m late to work because I overslept, so I need my car to drive 100mph, versus my home is on fire and I need to get there ten minutes ago to get my cats out?

      The problem is that edge cases exist, and it’s really, really hard, if not outright impossible, to plan for them with an expert system.

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      • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No they wouldn’t break the speed limit. But less people would die from car crashes. So in fact they would be better. Just not in this situation. Which again is incredibly rare.

        It never ever breaks speed limit. It doesn’t have to. No situation requires you to put your life above others.

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