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You just have to watch a few minutes of the Youtube compilations to wonder why on earth we let any humans drive cars now. I can see it quickly becoming economically infeasible to share public roads with other cars with a human driver, but that of course doesn't prevent private race tracks and driving parks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3XBE-rK0Xk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vduL0PljlFE

On seeing those you have to wonder what a computer driver would do in some of the circumstances. There are some where there will definitely be a crash (kinetic energy has to go somewhere). Should the computer minimize the number of human casualties/injuries amongst all the vehicles involved even if that means harming the (fewer) occupants of the vehicle more?




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