Vehicles could be fitted with what they call an ‘Ethical Knob’, under a proposal by Giuseppe Contissa, Francesca Lagioia, and Giovanni Sartor of CIRSFID, at the University of Bologna, Italy. The device might help clarify ethical/legal issues with Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). What for example, should a self-driving car do when it ‘realizes’ (in an impending […]
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Driving trucks at birds – what happens?
Q. What happens if you drive a partially camouflaged Ford F-250 truck (travelling at 60 km/h [≈ 37 mph]) towards a group of feeding turkey vultures? A. They get out of the way [pdq]. This was one of the findings of an experimental study by Travis L. DeVault, Bradley F. Blackwell, Thomas W. Seamans, Steven […]
Frozen chickens killed Detroit, sort of
Harvard professor Robert Lawrence, who specializes in international trade, proposes that the “chicken tax” is actually what killed Detroit, by insulating it from real competition in light-duty trucks for 40 years…. It all started in 1962, when the European Common Market barred access to US frozen-chicken imports on the grounds they were devastating German producers. […]