If you say "at least as good as a human" then it's challenging. (by which I mean it's an ethics problem. Uber has ... ethical issues, but Tesla is much better already, and so far I'd say Google seems to have it covered)
If you say "perfectly safe, I don't care about humans" then it's impossible.
> So for now they actually do not let the robots operate in physical contact with humans. The closest they’ve come to testing the robots is working with a human to lift a stretcher.
This is an example of the "absolute safety" standard. By that standard, if you were fair, you wouldn't let humans near each other. You certainly wouldn't let 2 humans lift a stretcher and run with it, and yet we do that all the time, live on public television.
That's reality, not an abstract standard. That's what humans find acceptable behavior done to other humans that likely have a fractured bone : throwing them onto a field from half a meter high (and on occassion, onto concrete or the metal of an ambulance. With the broken bone first if you're truly out of luck. Ouch). As long as it's not done on purpose ... it's fine.
Over 1000 humans are killed yearly in the US just because other humans can't wait to sober up before driving. That's how much humans really care about safety. How much humans imagine/pretend they care about safety ...
If you say "at least as good as a human" then it's challenging. (by which I mean it's an ethics problem. Uber has ... ethical issues, but Tesla is much better already, and so far I'd say Google seems to have it covered)
If you say "perfectly safe, I don't care about humans" then it's impossible.
> So for now they actually do not let the robots operate in physical contact with humans. The closest they’ve come to testing the robots is working with a human to lift a stretcher.
This is an example of the "absolute safety" standard. By that standard, if you were fair, you wouldn't let humans near each other. You certainly wouldn't let 2 humans lift a stretcher and run with it, and yet we do that all the time, live on public television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPbdnafO93c
That's reality, not an abstract standard. That's what humans find acceptable behavior done to other humans that likely have a fractured bone : throwing them onto a field from half a meter high (and on occassion, onto concrete or the metal of an ambulance. With the broken bone first if you're truly out of luck. Ouch). As long as it's not done on purpose ... it's fine.
Over 1000 humans are killed yearly in the US just because other humans can't wait to sober up before driving. That's how much humans really care about safety. How much humans imagine/pretend they care about safety ...