[LINK] Google’s Robot Cars Are Smoother, Safer Drivers Than You

[Jim Birch]

Completely different but somehow related, this article that looks at drone
warfare and the hidden effects on the operators.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-pilot-assassination?currentPage=4&printable=true

"It was an unexpected diagnosis. For decades the model for understanding
PTSD has been “fear conditioning”: quite literally the lasting
psychological ramifications of mortal terror. But a term now gaining wider
acceptance is “moral injury.” It represents a tectonic realignment, a shift
from a focusing on the violence that has been done to a person in wartime
toward his feelings about what he has done to others—or what he’s failed to
do for them. The concept is attributed to the clinical psychiatrist
Jonathan Shay, who in his book Achilles in Vietnam traces the idea back as
far as the Trojan War. The mechanisms of death may change—as intimate as a
bayonet or as removed as a Hellfire—but the bloody facts, and their weight
on the human conscience, remain the same."


Jim


On 28 October 2013 08:26, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:

> We've covered this subject before on link
>
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520746/data-shows-googles-robot-cars-are-smoother-safer-drivers-than-you-or-i/
>
> > Data Shows Google’s Robot Cars Are Smoother, Safer Drivers Than You or I
> >
> > Tests of Google’s autonomous vehicles in California and Nevada suggests
> they already outperform human drivers.
>
> ....
>
> > He also said that when the inevitable accidents do occur, the data
> autonomous cars collect in order to navigate will provide a powerful and
> accurate picture of exactly who was responsible.
> >
> > Urmson showed data from a Google car that was rear-ended in traffic by
> another driver. Examining the car’s annotated map of its surroundings
> clearly showed that the Google vehicle smoothly halted before being struck
> by the other vehicle.
>
> > "We don’t have to rely on eyewitnesses that can’t act be trusted as to
> what happened—we actually have the data,” he said. “The guy around us
> wasn’t paying enough attention. The data will set you free.”
>
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