Yup. People seem to be overly critical with automated car failures.
Personally, i think automated cars are going to easily be better than humans in the working cases (both human and ai are concious). Next, i expect to see fully operational backup systems.
Eg, if a monitoring system decides that the primary system is failing for whatever reason, be it bug or unhandled road condition (tree/etc), the backup system takes over and solely attempts to get the driver off the road, and into a safe location.
Humans often fail, but often can attempt to recover. And, as bad as we may be at even recovering, we know to try and avoid oncoming traffic. Computers (currently) are very bad at recovering when they fail. I feel like having a computer driving, in the event of failure, is akin to a narcoleptic driver - when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong. Hence why i hope to see a backup system, completely isolated, and fully intent on safely changing lanes or finding a suitable area to pull over.
Sounds good in theory. Until the bug that causes failure is also present in the monitoring system, and as such doesn't fail over to the backup system. AKA exactly what happened here to Google.
Personally, i think automated cars are going to easily be better than humans in the working cases (both human and ai are concious). Next, i expect to see fully operational backup systems.
Eg, if a monitoring system decides that the primary system is failing for whatever reason, be it bug or unhandled road condition (tree/etc), the backup system takes over and solely attempts to get the driver off the road, and into a safe location.
Humans often fail, but often can attempt to recover. And, as bad as we may be at even recovering, we know to try and avoid oncoming traffic. Computers (currently) are very bad at recovering when they fail. I feel like having a computer driving, in the event of failure, is akin to a narcoleptic driver - when it goes wrong, it goes really wrong. Hence why i hope to see a backup system, completely isolated, and fully intent on safely changing lanes or finding a suitable area to pull over.