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Oh we all know what Elon values 🤪
Let’s pluck out this forced choice fallacy first off. I’m going to opt for c) I want self driving cars to obey the rules of the road “to the letter” and keep people safe. If not, why do they even make traffic rules?
You and Elon want the cool self driving car that cruises 60 in a 50 with traffic and occasionally doesn’t check its blind spot but quickly recovers and gives a quick wave like sorry bro my bad.
I mean, okay Jerry.
It's a thought experiment. I'm not making any statements about which is the correct thing to do. Just asking people to consider the possibility that what actually leads to the safest possible roads may not be what is intuitive. If you for the sake of argument can't imagine a scenario where a self driving car is able to bend the rules from time to time to navigate differen't scenarios while still managing to stay out of accidents then you frankly just haven't thought about it very much.
That third option is the first option in my view.
For the sake of an argument let's imagine that most people drive 10kph over the speedlimit on highways and statistically a significant number of accidents happens when people are overtaking someone driving slower.
Now by driving faster these dangerous overtakes happen way less often and it results in overall increase in safety but it's also against the rules so how does your "third option" solve this issue?