The Google car programmed to speed?!!!!! Say it aint so!!!

[glhs837]

http://gizmodo.com/googles-autonomous-car-is-programmed-to-speed-because-i-1624025227/+damon

Dmitri Dolgov, the lead software engineer on the project, says that the car is programmed to go about 10 mph over the speed limit. While no one's going to confuse the Google car with a drag-racing hot rod, it is interesting that the company would deliberately design the car to break the law. The reason is safety: When cars all around the Google car are speeding, going slower than those cars would actually make driving conditions more dangerous.

Hmmmmm, sound familiar to anyone?

 

[kwillia]

http://gizmodo.com/googles-autonomous-car-is-programmed-to-speed-because-i-1624025227/+damon


Hmmmmm, sound familiar to anyone?

Well that explains it... "Google car runs over dog." http://www.businessinsider.com/google-street-view-car-hits-a-dog-in-chile-2014-8

 

[glhs837]

You do know that Google Maps cars are not autonomous, right? those are driven by regular humans, locals, in fact.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...se-dont-stand-middle-road-waiting-camera.html

 

[kwillia]

You do know that Google Maps cars are not autonomous, right? those are driven by regular humans, locals, in fact.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...se-dont-stand-middle-road-waiting-camera.html

I was making a funny.

 

[Ken King]

I was making a funny.

Stick to juggling.

 

[kwillia]

Stick to juggling.

Touche'

 

[RoseRed]

Touche'

I almost read that as "touch me".

 

[kwillia]

I almost read that as "touch me".

Oh my...

So back to the article... why bump up to an illegal speed when we can release TWO google cars and use them as pace cars to keep everyone at the legal speed...

 

[Ken King]

i almost read that as "touch me".

yeah baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[desertrat]

http://gizmodo.com/googles-autonomous-car-is-programmed-to-speed-because-i-1624025227/+damon



Hmmmmm, sound familiar to anyone?

So if some cop did decide to ticket it. Who would he ticket?

 

[glhs837]

Oh my...

So back to the article... why bump up to an illegal speed when we can release TWO google cars and use them as pace cars to keep everyone at the legal speed...

See, thats not funny either ......... do that and watch the development of consumer EMP cannons move faster than the Manhattan project

 

[Ken King]

See, thats not funny either ......... do that and watch the development of consumer EMP cannons move faster than the Manhattan project

Someone is probably already working on a "speed up the flow" app.

 

[glhs837]

So if some cop did decide to ticket it. Who would he ticket?

Well, there is still a driver, who as of now is legally responsible, but it does raise just one of the many legal issues with autonomous vehicles. Another of which is it senses a pedestrian/ cyclist, but the only calculated move to save that pedestrian places you in a fatal wreck, how does the programming decide who dies? Cruising down 235, truck jumps the median coming at you, software says head on is not survivable, but only open path is up onto the sidewalk, where there is a woman with a stroller. who eats it? Who gets sued?