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Couldn't disagree more with either of those takes. Self driving cars won't be safer even theoretically given unsolvable problems and will almost certainly lead to even worse pedestrian rights and make our cities so much worse. That solution to climate change isn't realistic of feasible at all we need if we are going to solve it massive systematic change and an end to capitalism.
What are the unsolvable problems with autonomous cars? Also I agree it is a bad thing for pedestrian rights and cities in general.
the decision making problem is the obvious one. there are an infinite number of possible edge cases to deal with when it comes to driving a car on roads with humans. current strategies require a bespoke solution to pretty much all of them, meaning tons of common edge cases arent covered and the vehicles will take potentially wildly inappropriate actions in unhandled cases, without even considering false positive or false negative detection of handled edge cases. this problem will never go away, and if you could make a computer that could do it as reliably as a human it would basically be agi. its a sisyphian problem that isnt going to be solved before we remember how great trains and streets without cars are.