re: Regarding AI and Driverless Cars...

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How can the AI determine who will die in a car wreck? I have yet to see any argument made on preventing death that is inevitable. Like the LV shooting. There is no AI in the world could have predicted which person lives and which dies in split seconds. The car will never know and neither will the passengers.

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In fairness, the LV example has far more variables than your average car accident. The physics are car accidents are fairly well understood. While not perfect, especially given some humans are more fragile than others, an algorithm could be written that would allow the car to preserve the most lives based on a statistical model. Even if not perfect it could easily do a better job than most humans in preserving the most life in an accident.

There are two keys here. One, with all autonomous cars the number of accidents, should drop significantly and the severity of the ones that do occur could be often be mitigated but a much quicker thinking computer with much more data available to it than a human. There are long functioning examples of this sort of process in industrial settings all over the world.