Digital Ethics and Cultural Nuances
A global ethics study aims to help AI solve the self-driving “trolley problem” MIT Technology Review article - By Karen Hao - October 24, 2018 In 2014 researchers at the MIT Media Lab designed an experiment called Moral Machine. The idea was to create a game-like platform that would crowdsource people’s decisions on how self-driving cars should prioritize lives in different variations of the “trolley problem.” In the process, the data generated would provide insight into the
Mercedes Benz and the bus of the future
Mercedes-Benz wants to bring autonomous transportation to the masses. Last year, the company's semi-autonomous bus, called the Future Bus, drove a little more than 12 miles from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to Haarlem, a city just outside Amsterdam. The bus's journey was especially impressive because the route included traffic lights, tunnels, and required the bus to navigate around people. Mercedes is betting self-driving buses like its Future Bus will grow in demand as urba
