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Sutherland: Pedestrians will exploit driverless cars because they always yield without retaliating
“Now, if we take this in in the driverless car situation, we'll know that when we want to cross the road, we just walk out in front of a driverless car, because it's always going to stop. Now, this may cause the passengers in the driverless car to lurch around …”
Rory Sutherland May 30, 2017 ▶ 26:06 Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
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People will learn to trap autonomous vehicles with simple visual tricks
“Someone is going to find a way of hacking that driverless car. Within seconds. By which I mean, you know, they'll work out that by putting a particular pattern of balloons on the road, the driverless car basically starts just going around in ridiculous circles…”
Rory Sutherland May 30, 2017 ▶ 23:26 Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
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