[SystemSafety] Autonomously Driven Car Kills Pedestrian

[Matthew Squair]

The ‘robot cars are safer’ argument to my mind generally neglects the
alternative outcomes for such a proposition. That is the that total
accident rate:

1. increases. or
2. stubbornly stays the same.

A decrease would eventuate only if a robot car’s residual accident rate
ends up below that of human drivers and there’s no confounding factors.

Now it’s a truth universally acknowledged that technologies have a learning
curve behavior when it comes to safety (amongst other things). The
consequence of that is there’s an economic threshold up ahead for robot
cars where improvements just won’t economically viable.

So in the first instance what makes anyone think that robot car residual
accident rate will be above or below a human driver?

On 24 March 2018 at 4:16:37 am, Peter Bernard Ladkin (ladkin at causalis.com)
wrote:

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> On 2018-03-23 17:40 , Michael Jackson wrote:
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> So the responsibility in overseeing autonomous driving is worse than that
> of an old-fashioned
> driving instructor in a dual-control car, teaching an untrusted
> learner—you can’t even order
> the software to slow down: in short, it is far more demanding and
> stressful than driving the
> car yourself.
>
> Spot on, as usual.
>
> Woods and Sarter, in their seminal study of pilots using A320 automation,
> found it was worse than
> that. When the situation got odd, rather than cutting out the automation
> and taking control ("first,
> fly the airplane"), they found the crew inclined to try to debug the
> automation.
>
> PBL
>
> Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
> MoreInCommon
> Je suis Charlie
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