[ExI] Self-Driving Cars Must Make Ethical Decisions

[William Flynn Wallace]

If the cops have a pull-over button, the bad guys can get to it.

spike

This might start a whole new discussion - hope so.  The quality of our
police is too low.  And has been for some time, maybe forever.   I am not
judging them on the basis of the events in the last few years.  In addition
to the quality, I question the quasi-military training they are given.  It
makes them lack empathy with the public, like the students in the famous
Zimbardo study (students acting as prisoners and prison guards - if you
don't  know this one, please Google it - frightening).


Of course you are right about bad guys getting remote controls for cars.
If that happens, every car will be loaded with guns, right?  Then road rage
will be turned into road murders.


Why can't everything in a car be hardwired?  No wifi no hacks, except,
perhaps, your internet radio.  bill w



On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:51 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >>…If your question was more towards: has anyone tried to hack and take
> over control of an aircraft, the Iranians are claiming that’s how they
> captured one of our drones.
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> ​>…So then, is it just a matter of time before someone hacks into a
> commercial jet and crashes it?  Or if the software is so strong, then why
> couldn't it be put in the cars?​
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> It can be put in cars.
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> As to your questions, the Iranians are claiming they spoofed a control
> signal and took over the drone.  Drones need to have antennas and access to
> control systems, since no one is on board.
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> The situation that is coming ever more clear is that robo-cars need to be
> controllable somehow from the outside.  Scenario: prole is having a
> possible heart attack, can’t afford an ambulance ride, gets in car and
> tells it to go to the hospital, but on the way, gets worse and decides
> perhaps she can afford an ambulance ride (have you seen those modern ones?
> Heart attack victims are better off in a modern ambulance than they were in
> the hospital twenty years ago.)  OK so she can’t really drive but the
> ambulance can pull up along side.  I suppose a skilled ambulance driver
> would pull up to the left and forward of the robo-car and force it to the
> shoulder.
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> The cops are going to want a pull-over button so they can sniff the car
> for cash, but we might suppose they too could force it over.
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> If the cops have a pull-over button, the bad guys can get to it.
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