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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
No, he means when the car is advanced enough to be able to detect things like kids chasing a ball into the street, and how it decides whether or not to try to swerve to avoid the kid and thereby cause a head-on collision with an oncoming minivan, potentially killing its occupants.
But yeah, putting all truckers out of work is also a thing worth being concerned about. Automation on such a large scale is going to do some pretty screwball things to the economy.
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Not even that. A human could see a toy truck, and just automatically associate that toy truck with a probability of a child nearby. We don't even know how to program that into a car.
And yes, the above ethical issue is huge. Too bad many manufacturers have said that they will solve it by protecting the consumer of their product. So bye-bye kids, Donnie just bought a Mercedes.
The second is also significant - particularly since we are nowhere understanding whether or not significant automation will lead to significant productivity gains in the overall economy.