June 3: Self Driving Cars

 Today's Delema was about the self-driving car. In class we discussed the programming of a self-driving car in an emergency.

The problem:

The dilemma of the self-driving car was what option the car should choose in the situation that it has to sacrifice the passengers or other drivers. The car had three options. Either drive towards danger, swerve into a SUV, or swerve into a motorcycle.


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Decision:

In my group and personal opinion, we choose to swerve into the SUV. We had a two main reasons for this:

  1. The chance of survival for both passengers would most likely be much higher assuming we are talking about just a driver.
  2. The damage to the vehicles would be less bad than if the car went another direction.
When we first considered the problem, the outcome was really all we were thinking about. As we listened to others reasoning however, we changed our answer. We choose to drive into the danger. The main reason for this was because we wanted to hold the driver accountable for consenting to using a self-driving car while others did not. 


Survey:

The survey above was taken to see how people felt about a self-driving car. The results showed that 43% of people do not feel safe in a self-driving car. 

Why the lack of trust:

There could be many reasons why people don't trust self-driving cars, but the main reasons that stick out to me are:

  • Company priorities
    • Companies will almost always prioritize their profit and face. They won't want to do anything that will get them sued or cause them to lose money. People assume the cars will be made to protect the company not the people. 
  • Decision making of car
    • Some people may consider the same question we did in class. They will worry about what the car will do. Whether there worried for others or themselves, someone may distrust the car to make good decisions. 
  • Accountability
    • If there is an accident people don't want to be held accountable. If companies are protecting themselves then the people would be blamed. No one wants a car that could put them in an accident without them technically causing it. 
  • Popularity
    • The simplest explanation is simply that self-driving cars are not popular and haven't been used much. No one wants to try something that just came out. They don't want to be the test run.





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