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<blockquote data-quote="Steve G" data-source="post: 76346" data-attributes="member: 2384"><p>My understanding is the self-driving car would sense other autonomous vehicles as vehicles, and everything else as objects presumably to be avoided. Therefore a self-driving car coming upon a motorcycle traveling at speed on an open highway would, what? Stop? Swerve? Wait for the motorcycle to cross to the other side of the road? I can see this being an issue that, because of its complexity (ie cost), might spawn legislation that restricts old motorcycles.</p><p>There's also the Moral Question surrounding autonomous vehicles that goes something like this: Five people suddenly step out in front of a self-driving car traveling at speed. Should the car go off the cliff and kill its occupant in order to save the pedestrians? Programming the car to sacrifice 1 person in order to save 5 pedestrians. Who would make that call?</p><p>The media is blasts how a "majority of people" are in favor of autonomous vehicles. Tech companies are clearly pushing this. They stand to gain so why wouldn't they want this to happen fast. I drive through Silly-Con Valley often and I have a laugh when I see the line of identical Tesslas waiting to exit the freeway at Sandhill Road. This stuff is, to a large extent, not designed by passionate motoring enthusiasts. It's programmers, investment bankers and politicians who mare than likely will work this out together and the rest of us will just have to deal with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve G, post: 76346, member: 2384"] My understanding is the self-driving car would sense other autonomous vehicles as vehicles, and everything else as objects presumably to be avoided. Therefore a self-driving car coming upon a motorcycle traveling at speed on an open highway would, what? Stop? Swerve? Wait for the motorcycle to cross to the other side of the road? I can see this being an issue that, because of its complexity (ie cost), might spawn legislation that restricts old motorcycles. There's also the Moral Question surrounding autonomous vehicles that goes something like this: Five people suddenly step out in front of a self-driving car traveling at speed. Should the car go off the cliff and kill its occupant in order to save the pedestrians? Programming the car to sacrifice 1 person in order to save 5 pedestrians. Who would make that call? The media is blasts how a "majority of people" are in favor of autonomous vehicles. Tech companies are clearly pushing this. They stand to gain so why wouldn't they want this to happen fast. I drive through Silly-Con Valley often and I have a laugh when I see the line of identical Tesslas waiting to exit the freeway at Sandhill Road. This stuff is, to a large extent, not designed by passionate motoring enthusiasts. It's programmers, investment bankers and politicians who mare than likely will work this out together and the rest of us will just have to deal with it. [/QUOTE]
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