[LINK] Robot cars and the fear gap

[JanW]

At 01:50 PM 14/07/2016, Brendan wrote:

>Presumably, driverless cars are going to disproportionately remove drunks, suicides and young men from the accident statistics. If there is only a marginal improvement in _overall_ statistics, then that implies that they're being balanced by losses from other groups, so you are effectively choosing who will be killed on the roads. 

Just read through the last 8 or so messages on this and didn't see the following idea considered.

Mixture - you have some people as passenger/drivers in auto-automobiles and others, including those drunks/young people (some girls are reckless too)/Mr Magoo seniors squinting over the steering wheels/those intent on taking out themselves and a few others along the way. Can an auto-auto anticipate which of those non-mid-range drivers are involved when any counter measures are required? What are the points of failure that need to be accounted for in these scenarios?

Jan


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