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Originally Posted by photon
Who tells you? Why can't a computer have the same set of rules that you follow?
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It's a good question. I guess there is a combination of emotions, past experiences, empathy. I am trying to imagine how do you weigh driver comfort, public safety, property damage concerns all together. Should my car drive into a large pothole, causing my discomfort and possible damage to avoid hitting a rabbit or a ball or what? Should it drive through a huge puddle and soak pedestrians waiting for a bus? I know that a drive by soaking of pedestrians is wrong, but what is more or less wrong? And that is assuming my cars computer has all of the data to make that decision. I guess there is some conscience aspects involved too. I might be "okay" hitting a rabbit, but not a cat or dog, but how does my cars computer quantify how much I want to avoid those things? Enough to allow damage to mine or somebody else's car? Should it weigh the life of an animal vs a human maybe having their leg broken?