The Tesla crash lawsuit nails the Achilles heel of driverless cars
The advent of Automated Emergency Braking systems involves tough choices and potential untoward results.When you were a young child, you might have placed your hand near a stovetop that was hot or tried to grab the handle of a pot or pan that had been on the stove and instinctively snatched back your hand. Having felt the intense heat, your autonomic nervous system kicked-in to save you from a severe burn.
I remember one time I saw a pan on a stove that was starting to ignite its contents, potentially leading to a deadly fire, and I quickly reasoned that the most expedient act was to grab the pan by the handle and get it off the stovetop, yet I risked burning my hand in doing so. My instincts fought against my reasoning, namely that instinctively my hand did not want to grasp that scorching hot handle, but I did so anyway, averting a larger disaster.
Why would such a seemingly oddball and risk-heightening act have been undertaken? Because the self-driving car engineers had devised their own AI-led emergency braking system and were concerned that having essentially two kinds of braking systems in the driverless car would lead to erratic behavior. The more instinctive kind of AEB tends to be a faster form of responsiveness, yet it can also lead to falsely applying the brakes when the situation might not truly warrant it. The AEB that involves more of an AI analytic approach tends to be more well-rounded but can chew-up precious time, and as such lose opportunistic time that might have been spent in the actual braking of the car.
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