Should drivers go out of their way to help other drivers, and if so, will we expect AI-based self-driving cars to do likewise? That's a thorny Ethical AI question to consider.
The concern about your looking down at your smartphone is that you can become distracted. Your attention is no longer focused on the driving scene.
Unfortunately, you opted to hit the gas before reexamining the street scene. Your vehicle begins to move forward and all of sudden, now that your eyes are once again viewing the roadway, you see that a pedestrian has “magically” appeared in front of your car.Well, it wasn’t thin air, it was that you had a mental image or belief that was based on what you saw a few seconds earlier. You did not expect that a pedestrian would make a crossing.
You could say that this boredom is a good thing. It means that apparently nothing is occurring in the driving scene that pertains to your driving actions. You can rest easy, for a moment, and remain calm at the wheel. In short, the car that was about to make the right turn was coming up fast to do so and would be unable to see around the corner, ergo not able to realize that a car was stopped just beyond there. If the driver making the right turn did so without fully stopping and gingerly creeping forward, they would likely go around the bend at a fast clip and find themselves shockingly about to hit another car .
One supposes that you could try to move forward and start into the intersection, which might catch the eye of the driver making the right turn. This though also begins to put you into a dangerous spot. You are doing something ostensibly illegal, which might seem “reasonable” as an attempt to prevent a car accident from taking place.
One could suggest that not taking any action ought to lead to a guilty conscience. Maybe. For some, this could be a haunting situation for the rest of their lives. For others, they might contend that nothing they would have done could have produced any different outcome. Fate had already decided what was going to occur. Their watching the unveiling from a distance was a quirk of fate too.
There is not yet a true self-driving car at Level 5, which we don’t yet even know if this will be possible to achieve, and nor how long it will take to get there. You are the responsible party for the driving actions of the vehicle, regardless of how much automation might be tossed into a Level 2 or Level 3.For Level 4 and Level 5 true self-driving vehicles, there won’t be a human driver involved in the driving task.One aspect to immediately discuss entails the fact that the AI involved in today’s AI driving systems is not sentient.
All right, I think that sufficiently clarifies that there is going to be a mixture of self-driving cars and human-driven cars and that there is an opportunity for self-driving cars to indirectly help out human drivers.Exactly akin to my earlier discussion about spotting a pending or imminent car crash, an AI driving system could detect those kinds of unfolding dilemmas. Pretend that instead of me sitting in my car as the driver at that left turn, a self-driving car was in that same position.
Maybe, once we get the ego vehicle stuff relatively done, then the attention can go towards the considered “peripheral” action of helping out other drivers.
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