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[Anarion07]

Haven't seen a thread on this, and thought it threadworthy, since there's far too few good news at the moment.

a 41 year old German driver, while on the Autobahn, noticed the car in front of him driving eratically. He overtook, saw the driver was in trouble, drove in front of him, and let him rear-end his car, slowing them both down to a stop.

He definitely saved at least one life that day.

http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/tesla-driver-saves-another-driver/#jZbAfmNy0qqz

When Elon Musk heard of it, he congratulated the man and said Tesla will pay all (expedited) repairs.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/831972613912080384

rear-end me if old

edit:
picture of the hero. Car seems to be in decent shape, actually.

 

[capitalCORN]

That's a good man.

 

[therealist]

I would do the same thing in that situation.

 

[JonnyDBrit]

...so does this qualify as hero insurance?

 

[commedieu]

I was hoping the ai did it and the thread was a typo. Or that he drove the car into a oncoming truck and barrel rolled moments before.

Still Cool though.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

good on both of them

 

[Hydrus]

Can we just make him president of the world already?

 

[daviyoung]

Can we just make him president of the world already?

The car driver?

 

[Anarion07]

...so does this qualify as hero insurance?

In Germany the unconscious drivers insure would investigate, if the rear-ended driver was really acting to save his life. If true, they would pay all of it.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

The car driver?

Tesla

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

The car driver?

The unconscious person

 

[mackattk]

The car driver?

Sure, why not? better than the alternatives.

 

[daviyoung]

Tesla

I'd vote for Mr Tesla

 

[SwiftDeath]

I'm okay with letting random german tesla driver hero person be president of the world

Still more qualified than Potus

 

[Brazil]

Holy shit, man. That's a bonafide hero right there.

 

[Mortemis]

Can we just make him president of the world already?

The car AI?

 

[Trouble]

The unconscious person

I'll take it!

 

[Kyne]

literally the AI, the car, the totaled car, the driver, the unconscious driver, and especially Tesla would all be better candidates for president than what we have now.

 

[veryslowhand]

Musk 2020

 

[commedieu]

Can we just make him president of the world already?

I don't know. What's the deal with the labor gripes at his factory?

I heard some scuttlebut that I meant to google.

Re: pic

Imagined more damage.

 

[Timbuktu]

does feel like Tesla is piggybacking for publicity the way this is worded.

 

[Anarion07]

does feel like Tesla is piggybacking for publicity the way this is worded.

Meh, in that situation as Tesla you can't do anything right

 

[mr jones]

I know other car company owners, the best car companies, and they would have just given him another car. Don't cheap out when a driver gets you good press. Sad!

 

[superdeluxe]

I'm okay with letting random german tesla driver hero person be president of the world

Still more qualified than Potus

Well at the very least he is a good person, so he is already miles ahead.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Most impressive.

 

[Somnid]

This is one of those weird cases where if we imagine the autopilot was fully autonomous, would it (and should it) perform the same maneuver knowing that it could injure the passenger.

 

[mnz]

He had to overtake him on the right lane and damage his own car. That's like two cardinal sins in Germany. What a hero.

This is one of those weird cases where if we imagine the autopilot was fully autonomous, would it (and should it) perform the same maneuver knowing that it could injure the passenger.

These autopilots all favor the safety of their passengers over the outside world from what I understand. There are quite a few dark questions software engineers have to decide upon when creating them.

 

[The Kree]

This is one of those weird cases where if we imagine the autopilot was fully autonomous, would it (and should it) perform the same maneuver knowing that it could injure the passenger.

Do we really want machines thinking this deeply?

 

[Volimar]

Just saw this story on CNN. Pretty brave to get in front of an out of control vehicle.

 

[sirap]

This is one of those weird cases where if we imagine the autopilot was fully autonomous, would it (and should it) perform the same maneuver knowing that it could injure the passenger.

 

[soldat7]

Musk 2020

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/6/14520608/elon-musk-trump-tesla-business-deal-economic-advisory-team

 

[televator]

Damn cool. Sounds like some sorta Batman maneuver.

 

[Wag]

If a self driving car had to decide whether to plow into a crowd of children or run in to a utility pole and potentially injure the driver, which one would it do?

 

[suaveric]

If a self driving car had to decide whether to plow into a crowd of children or run in to a utility pole and potentially injure the driver, which one would it do?

It will run in to the children. You can't have the car have a choice, what if it malfunctions at some point and thinks it sees children and runs into a poll for no reason. Just like today if a group of children ran into a busy street and were hit by a normal car that was obeying the law it wouldn't be the driver's fault.

 

[squall23]

It will run in to the children. You can't have the car have a choice, what if it malfunctions at some point and thinks it sees children and runs into a poll for no reason. Just like today if a group of children ran into a busy street and were hit by a normal car that was obeying the law it wouldn't be the driver's fault.

That depends on where you live. That's true in a place like Hong Kong for example, but in Canada, Right of Way exists so if a pedestrian was crossing the street whether was jay walking or not and gets hit, it's the driver's fault.

 

[Aureon]

This is one of those weird cases where if we imagine the autopilot was fully autonomous, would it (and should it) perform the same maneuver knowing that it could injure the passenger.

Welcome to Isaac Asimov.

 

[TheKeyPit]

This is one of those weird cases where if we imagine the autopilot was fully autonomous, would it (and should it) perform the same maneuver knowing that it could injure the passenger.

Nothing would have happened if every car was fully autonomous.

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Really brave of him. I wouldn't want to get stuck in front of an out of control vehicle. But judging from the damage, it wasn't really going that fast.

 

[Moosichu]

This is one of those weird cases where if we imagine the autopilot was fully autonomous, would it (and should it) perform the same maneuver knowing that it could injure the passenger.

Why would it ever need to? If all cars are autonomous, you won't get situations like this.

 

[daviyoung]

Why would it ever need to? If all cars are autonomous, you won't get situations like this.

Cars will either allow manual override or if they don't (once you get to your stage of techno utopia) they'll be hacked to provide manual override.