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Humans totally do things that are bizarre or dangerous when in shock, but we've come to accept that as a personal responsibility and a price the society has to bear.


We have millennia of experience in regards to estimating how people will react to various shock situations and what constitutes those situations. It's intuitive.

The reactions of NN to unusual stimuli are likely to be counter-intuitive at best and unpredictable at worst.


Because we can't re-engineer humans into rule-based automata. (And we probably shouldn't even if we could.)

Machines, on the other hand, are a different story.


Exactly. People may swerve and over-correct, causing their car to flip, for example.


Electronic stability control (standard in US passenger cars since 2012) has already mostly solved that problem. http://www.safercar.gov/Vehicle+Shoppers/Rollover/Electronic...




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