[SystemSafety] Moral delemas and self driving cars

[paul_e.bennett at topmail.co.uk]

On 05/11/2016 at 12:11 PM, "Mike Ellims"  wrote:

	A couple of interesting bit’s culled from the New York Times:
	http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/opinion/sunday/whose-life-should-your-car-save.html?ref=opinion
	Which has a link too:
	http://moralmachine.mit.edu/
	I haven’t look at this in much detail but may have a play latter
today.
In a wider context, it is not just autonomous cars we are talking
about 
but a much broader playing field including, perhaps, all AI based 
systems.
Before they are trusted, I suspect that we will need the assurance
that 
the sensors used to provide the AI elements with information will need

to become much better components. Sensors that have the sense of
their own state of health and correct functioning.

With the right mix of sensors and decently moral algorithms, we could
be encouraged to trust the autonomous systems more generally. Even
the autonomous bus could become an acceptably trusted means of 
transport.

One of the failings of human drivers is not taking in the scene around
their vehicle for sufficient distance ahead, behind and to the sides.
An
autonomous vehicle would need no less sensing capability to base its
own decisions on.

I do not expect the vehicle systems to end up making the decisions 
that human drivers would find themselves faced with. I, rather, would 
expect such systems to have already sensed all conditions that may 
lead to a problem and have dealt with such assessment in such a way 
as to avoid having to make such decisions.

Regards
 Paul E. Bennett IEng MIET
 Systems Engineer
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