Name: Stanford researchers discuss the ethics of autonomous vehicles
Uploaded: 2016-08-28T00:01:38.000Z
Duration: 2 min 21 s
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Right now, the technology for automated vehicles

But to actually integrate them into society,

there are a lot of considerations that humans

We have to program vehicles to make these same kinds

of decisions in the same kinds of scenarios,

and it's really important to do so in an ethical, morally

Programmers are going to, ahead of time, decide how

And human drivers often will violate traffic laws

in order to maintain vehicle safety and occupant comfort.

If you are programming an autonomous vehicle

and you encounter an obstacle in the middle of your lane,

Because a human driver would go around the obstacle and violate

the double yellow line, assuming that it's clear.

to actually ahead of time decide to break the law?

We can treat that as a very harsh, strict constraint,

and the vehicle will have to come to a complete stop

Another option would be to minimize how much it violates

the double yellow line and veer very closely

The third scenario is to enter the oncoming traffic

The car itself is moving based on algorithms.

And these algorithms that we use have different constraints as

away to be from an obstacle, how close to get to an obstacle.

In a way, we can translate human comfort, human safety

into these numerical constraints and costs.

making the decisions now, and so we need to somehow translate

social behavior, ethical behavior into what

happens once the vehicle finally takes full control.

For more, please visit us at stanford.edu.

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