>This implies that self-driving cars will be programmed with a morality superior to that of evil humans.
No, he implied that computers are faster acting and probably wouldn't have hit the kid in the first place.
No, he implied that computers are faster acting and probably wouldn't have hit the kid in the first place.
The fact that the Volvo hit someone is not because it was programmed incorrectly. It was because it was responding correctly to its configuration as its producers envisioned it:
It ignores and runs over pedestrians unless the owner pays Volvo extra.
In the future everyone's dreaming of, cars won't hit people, but they will continue to hit people unless owners pay extra to corporations. That's not progress, that's extortion.