The Antiplanner is going on a road trip from Oregon to Texas for the annual American Dream conference. Along the way, I’ll visit some national parks and national forests and probably wish I was in a fully self-driving car. Postings may be light for the next few days unless I find WiFi in the woods.
Speaking of self-driving cars, I keep reading articles arguing that we’ll have to teach ethics to self-driving cars. Given a choice between killing the occupant of a car or two people outside, should the car kill the occupant because the good of the many outweighs the good of the few? Given a choice between hitting a pedestrian and hitting another car full of people, should the car kill the pedestrian?
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These are ridiculous questions. No one, not even a computer, is going to have time to count the number of occupants in another car and compare them with the number in a crowd of pedestrians before deciding which way to turn. The real ethical choice is to avoid the collision in the first place. A few accidents are inevitable, but something like 90 percent of auto accidents are due to human error. hose who want to argue ethics today are missing the point: take away the human error and everyone will be a lot better off.
The “ethics” stuff makes for fun dinner conversations. But it isn’t very practical, mostly because there’s no way for these tools to know what is going on at that level. A car may be able to somehow streer into a tree to avoid hitting a pedestrian but it’s not going to know how many passengers are in some other car, etc, etc, etc. It gets into scifi movie territory very quickly.
The ethics that self-driving cars need to learn is when to break the speed limit to pass or merge, when to flash the headlights to warn oncoming drivers of speed traps or problems behind them, when to slow way down to reassure parents standing next to the street, when to not splash pedestrians next to puddles, etc.
I have a pretty deep distrust of so-called bio-ethicists. But… ethical issues do arise, as they do with any human activity. Autonomous vehicles *are* human activity, it’s just that humans have delegated the actions – but not the responsibility. And, of course, we have a liability system, flawed as it is, that serves to sometimes force ethical behavior on institutions that otherwise might be tempted to cheat.
Overall, they seem to be making a mountain out of a molehill, and seeking limelight for their own views, which are not necessarily very interesting.