Re: Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX crashes in Jakarta Quote:
Originally Posted by Hayek . A defective product that kills even 300 people and injures 20000 a year would drive its makers bankrupt. It’s only if self driving cars are 10000x better (3 deaths and 200 injuries a year) that they can be introduced without new laws that protect manufacturers from tort claims. The same applies to pilotless planes. |
True. For some reason societies the world are very sceptical about self driving cars and expect such a car to be much safer than a human driven car.
We see a lot of very theoretical debate these days on self driving cars and how they would decided in certain scenario’s. Scenario’s are likely to be along the following lines:
The car is driving along a road, normal appropiate speed, all of a sudden a little old lady crossed the road from the left and a young girl from the right. There is no way the car can come to a stop, it needs to divert to either right or left to hit only one person, staying in the middle will kill them both. How should the computer respond.
Interestingly enough humans driver are not required to think through such a scenario. They are not taught anything remotely as such, neither is it tested during the driving test.
Also, we know that most driver absolutely such at making any such real emergency decision. But we still believe a self driven car needs to outperform by a very large margin anything we expect from a human driver.
Beats me. Quote:
Originally Posted by balenoed_ Why is it taking so much time to find the CVR? Considering it is not one of the remotest ocean on the earth like where MH370 was doomed. Also there is a location transmitter beacon which is active for 30 days which might help to narrow down the search area.
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Apparently, they lost the CVR location signal a few days ago. Which is going to make it more difficult to find the CVR that is likely to be stuck under a thick layer of mud.
Jeroen |