No a van or car hitting a tanker is deadly. http://globalnews.ca/news/2873555/highway-40-closed-in-both-directions-following-fiery-accident/

Again the words you write fully illustrate how your claims of superior credibility are backed by nothing given your responses are non-answers. Value is subjective and you clearly place little value on consumer rights given your strong support for anti-consumer DRM.

At most they are only going to use a watt or two of vampire power but imagine if instead of just you every house in the world used it that would be millions of watts of energy that could not be easily turned off when not in use. You wouldn’t notice a significant increase in your bill but energy waste is still wasted…

At most they are only going to use a watt or two of vampire power but imagine if instead of just you every house in…

A tanker truck, would obviously have no barriers around it. Any box box truck could contain hazardous materials unlisted on the outside. A propane heater would lack a barrier and still have a large enough tank to cause secondary damage.

Easy you save the scenario by cheating and building a smart road network able to detect potential hazards near roads and if a hazard is so fast and jumps from space instantly onto the road it just runs them right down as an undetected obstacle. The incidence of your scenario would be then reduced enough that people…

Problem is that if there really is no safe path for the car to move or stop then colliding with another obstacle may kill even more people and is just an unknown quantity that adds unnecessary complexity and risks.

Your not actually killing them under the legal sense as you were not culpable.

It is the only right answer because it is a simple answer. Everything else relies on knowing way too much information about everything around the car and at no point would it make any sense to make all that info even available to individual cars.

Trams/trains certainly can derail themselves at switch points and derailments while these are centrally controlled a smart car network is functionally identical.

Doubtful you will see an update of the fences and sensors for the roads so that the children can be detected and prevented from wandering onto the road.

I think the decision is moot as the cars cannot actually choose between saving pedestrians or passengers. They can only pick a path of minimum impact energy and that is how it should work. Sure people will die and stuff will break but overall less people will die if less impact energy occurs. Whatever happens to…

Or what if it is just a sensor error or software bug or real bug that just makes it think there is an obstacle. The software isn’t going to be perfect and putting in logic to decide who life is more worthwhile is a very bad idea.

If the road has cameras above and has a complete picture then there are no blind spots and the car does not need to see anything. Sure total surveillance but then no blind spots and much safer smart roads.

Not a dilemma because the car should not deviate from its initial collision path into other collision paths are also unknown effects and countless deadly to everyone situations could occur. Maybe the truck the car is going to swerve under to save the kids is carrying extremely hazardous materials or is a fuel truck…

Except crashing off a cliff because of a sudden hazard is also a bad idea as it could cause deadly accidents when the sensors get confused or false data in used. Or even someone intentionally triggers it to murder someone. There is also no way to know what would happen if another collision path was used and in order…

Slamming into a barrier is not a good idea as you don’t know if the barrier is going to move or not and what is behind the barrier is something the car may not know or understand properly. Maybe the barrier was actually a stationary propane storage tank and it just exploded on impact killing everyone nearby.

Actually a global AI controlled car network would be able to dynamically increase speeds and only slow down cars when actual risks are present so only when tons of children are hiding behind cars would cars actually slow down. It would probably also call traffic cops to get the kids away from the oncoming traffic and…

What are you talking about if the road is smart and AI connected it would see the deer well ahead of any cars coming and instruct cars to slow down to be able to stop in the exact area where the animals are crossing. Unless someone gives them thermo-optical camo just to surprise the smart road network I don’t really…

So your saying if a child shaped object moves from in front of a car you also want the car to crash itself somewhere “safe for the child” how does the car know that crashing off a cliff/road is actually safe it could cause even more death and damage if it crashes into a house or opposing traffic or jumps a cliff to…

Problem is that an automated car just like an automated train is not a human and cannot possibly sense and judge who’s life is more important let alone how many people might die in a multitude of possible reactions. It is far simpler and correct to just prioritise minimising impact energy (hint it is called brakes)…