Is someone driving high dangerous?
https://www.dailycamera.com/2016/06/09/affidavit-teen-driver...
https://www.stripes.com/us-army-soldier-three-others-serious...
That said, driving impaired is even more dangerous and I'm totally fine with tools to crack down on it. Smoke or drink all you want, but do it at home or with someone to give you a ride.
Someone tied to the street, doesn't apply because (in my state) the car should be moving at a speed that it would be able to stop in time. Someone thrown from a bridge into a cars way isn't one either, the car should try to protect the occupants again, because that's the case where it'll do the least amount of damage to other nearby cars. In the latter case, Humans wouldn't be able to make a moral decision in that amount of time either, and thus, should default to doing the least amount of damage.
Well, then you are going to need a different ML ruleset here in The Netherlands because bicyclists are protected by law. In the case of an accident with a car, the car driver is (almost always) at fault. That being said, since july 2019 it is illegal to operate a smartphone from your bicycle which, at times, was at odds with the earlier mentioned law.
I assume other countries in the world are going to have different (perhaps in eyes of some peculiar) exceptions to what is deemed normal.
The whole problem with your argument is this it is all "nice, in theory".
> should default to doing the least amount of damage.
"Should", indeed. The question is whether all of these ethical related aspects have been thought out. As the above suggests not only from the US (or whatever state you are in) PoV but with taking into account the entire world and the entire world's ethics and law. Heck, you might have to switch rulesets when crossing a border. Either way that is a very, very complex ruleset you're going to have to work with. And I doubt it is being done...
Maybe the kid in the story you linked crashed due to his speeding to reach home by curfew and not because he smoked marijuana that night.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2015/07/marijuana_and_dr...
In other words, this isn't something that anyone who gets stopped goes through. You get tested if you're driving erratically.
Driving is a privilege. It's easy enough to avoid doing it while high.
Only insomuch as those techniques have nothing to do with alcohol specifically and can be applied to any situation, including sleepy drivers.
> In other words, this isn't something that anyone who gets stopped goes through. You get tested if you're driving erratically.
Not true. You could be pulled over for a variety of reasons, anything from speeding to a broken tail-light or just because the cop thinks you look like a stoner and is betting he'll be able to bust you. From the article you linked:
> The officer evaluates the driver. Some signs are obvious: bloodshot eyes, candy bar wrappers and what Iwai calls the "typical Beavis and Butthead laugh." Others are more subtle -- for example, slightly protruding veins on the person's neck.
So the officer makes some subjective judgements that will allow him to administer the test and whether it comes back positive or negative, we have not established that the driver was actually impaired and this is critical because the test would then allow the officer to imprison the citizen even if they were not driving erratically. The suggestion that you'll only be pulled over for driving erratically is not true.
The literature on this is .... not great.
I'm specifically looking for a dose dependent study that shows level of THC intoxication has positive correlation with driving impairment. With a large sample size. Hopefully from some group not looking to prove something.
https://www.nap.edu/read/18942/chapter/9#114
Certainly there are people who would say it has no effect on them. Met people who thought a few beers makes them better drivers, too.