(Bloomberg) -- The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creationthat’s supposed to lead to a world without accidents, is achievingthe exact opposite right now: The vehicles have racked up a crashrate double that of those with human drivers.
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception. Thismay sound like the right way to program a robot to drive a car, butgood luck trying to merge onto a chaotic, jam-packed highway withtraffic flying along well above the speed limit. It tends not towork out well. As the accidents have piled up — all minorscrape-ups for now — the arguments among programmers at placeslike Google Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University are heating up:Should they teach the cars how to commit infractions from time totime to stay out of trouble?
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