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push this
button it's driving
itself it feels
good so BMW brought me to the Consumer
Electronic Show here in Las Vegas I'm
going to check out the future of
driving did I get it am I near try it
right oh I felt
it that really felt like pushing a
button in this concept car there's a
holographic menu screen it works by
projecting an image Above This panel and
then it uses this camera here in the
steering column to determine where your
finger is and when it detects your
fingers in the right spot it uses
ultrasound from these speakers to
provide haptic feedback you can actually
feel it in your finger it's it's like a
little buzzing but what I really want to
try is not driving I I can actually talk
to the camera are you are you are you
sure that this is a good idea so here's
a question how much should you trust an
autonomous car this car is now driving
itself but I need to be ready to take
over at any time I'm still legally
responsible if something happens to the
car right but in the coming years cars
are going to take over more and more of
the responsibility for driving safely
and that has led a lot of people to
consider the moral dilemmas faced when
programming self-driving cars the
question is what sort of ethical
framework should we program in to
autonomous vehicles so it needs to make
a decision swerve left in into an SUV or
swerve right into a
motorcycle okay so we can imagine a lot
of weird situations where an autonomous
car has to make a tough choice but the
real moral dilemma is accidents are
happening right now more than 30,000
people are killed each year in the us
alone and more than 2 million are
injured and the problem in 94% of
collisions is driver error in 2015 half
of all traffic fatalities occurred on
highways so even this level of
Technology we've demonstrated today
autonomous driving on a highway could
save a lot of lives we are already
shirking our responsibility for driving
cars we're using our phones in 2014
distracted driving resulted in at least
3,000 killed and 430,000 injured so if
we're not driving we better hope that
the tech gets to a level where the cars
can drive for us my view this problem is
only going to get worse you know when
elevators became autonomous a lot of
people were uncomfortable with that they
were used to there being a driver in the
elevator so compromises had to be made
like big red stop buttons just to make
people comfortable and a nice soothing
voice to say which floor would you like
to go to now I know that elevators have
many fewer degrees of freedom than a car
but even if you look at something like
airplanes airplanes flying in full
autonomous mode are actually safer
studies show than when Pilots can take
control I think the moral dilemas over
exactly how cars should react in the
tiny percentage of cases where tough
choices need to be made is a distraction
from the main problem the longer we wait
to get autonomous vehicles on the road
the more people will die and that is the
real moral question of autonomous cars
why aren't we getting them on the road
faster I hope you enjoyed the ride that
was cool and now let's head back for the
CES perfect what
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