{"id":29419,"date":"2016-08-27T00:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T07:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ray-kurzweil-explores-how-self-driving-cars-will-choose-between-life-or-death"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:45:17","slug":"ray-kurzweil-explores-how-self-driving-cars-will-choose-between-life-or-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ray-kurzweil-explores-how-self-driving-cars-will-choose-between-life-or-death","title":{"rendered":"Ray Kurzweil Explores How Self-Driving Cars Will Choose Between Life or Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sGjICGFZDa0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Driving a motor vehicle requires making tough choices in the heat of the moment. Whether slamming on the brakes in traffic or speeding up before a light turns red, split-second decisions are often a choice between the lesser of two evils. Sometimes, a choice could lead to bodily injury or even a loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>As more self-driving cars reach the road, life-and-death decisions once made by humans alone will increasingly shift to machines. Yet the idea of giving that responsibility over to a computer may be unsettling to some.<\/p>\n<p>Self-driving cars have the potential to significantly reduce the tens of thousands of auto fatalities occurring yearly\u2014but a reduction isn\u2019t the same as elimination. In fact, some deaths will inevitably happen at the hands of computer algorithms once they make those decisions for us.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/25\/ray-kurzweil-explores-how-self-driving-cars-will-choose-between-life-or-death\/?utm_content=buffercdcf8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/25\/ray-kurzweil-explores-h...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving a motor vehicle requires making tough choices in the heat of the moment. Whether slamming on the brakes in traffic or speeding up before a light turns red, split-second decisions are often a choice between the lesser of two evils. Sometimes, a choice could lead to bodily injury or even a loss of life. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,2018,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60611,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29419\/revisions\/60611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}