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Old January 6th 17, 04:21 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris L Peterson
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Default Climate change could cause mass exodus by mid century

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:39:47 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
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On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 3:11:14 PM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:47:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


So the driver/passenger doesn't get to decide?


Thankfully, no.


That's just plain silly, because automated systems will continue to be far more
limited than human beings. So it *will* be possible for criminals to commit
assassination by putting sufficiently realistic dummies... or fresh corpses...
in front of moving cars, if no possibility of an override exists.

Machines aren't at the point that they can "deserve" trust.


But some machines, in some environments, soon will be. And that
includes cars. There's really no dispute that a fully automated car
transport system will reduce traffic fatalities by 90% or more.
Autonomous cars (which are currently just semi-autonomous) are already
less limited than humans, and getting less so all the time.

We will no more allow a human to override an automated car (in the
near future) than we allow a passenger on an airplane to override the
pilot. Are there realistic situations where allowing a passenger to do
that would save a flight? Of course. But allowing such intervention
would result in far more flights being lost. Similarly, the only way
to create a truly safe surface traffic system is to remove direct
control from the passengers in the car.