Google Self-Driving Car

[Orior]

Read all about it here:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/28/google-self-driving-car-how-does-it-work

Question: If you were a developer or analyst working on this, then how would you program it to behave in the following scenario?

You're tootling along at 25mph on a narrow two-way road and all of a sudden a pram with a baby inside rolls out in front of you. Should the driver-less car:
a) Divert left into a tree potentially killing the driver
b) Divert right into the oncoming traffic, potentially killing the driver and maybe a few others
c) Drive over the pram

[WeeDonns]

d) stop ?

[Orior]

d) stop ?

Emmm.... errr... dammit... I should have said that it is too late to stop.

[93-DY-SAM]

First ask yourself what you would do if you were driving?

[seafoid]

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e79f8626-17fb-11e4-a82d-00144feabdc0.html
Sir David Spiegelhalter, a risk expert at Cambridge university, points out that most drivers are extremely safe. Most accidents are caused by a few idiots, and it is precisely those idiots, Sir David speculates, who are least likely to cede control to a computer.

[armaghniac]

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e79f8626-17fb-11e4-a82d-00144feabdc0.html
Sir David Spiegelhalter, a risk expert at Cambridge university, points out that most drivers are extremely safe. Most accidents are caused by a few idiots, and it is precisely those idiots, Sir David speculates, who are least likely to cede control to a computer.

In 50 years time the computer will say, you are acting the bollix and take control from you.