When Humans Panic While Inside An AI Autonomous Car - AI Trends

Wait, change that, go ahead and panic. Sometimes people momentarily lose their minds and opt to panic. This primal urge can be handy as it invokes the classic fight-or-flight instinctive reaction to a situation. If you suddenly see a bear up ahead while in the woods, it could be that rather than carefully trying to plot out all of the myriad of options about what to do, entering instead into a panic mode might get your feet moving and you'll have run far from the bear before it has had a chance to do anything to you. On the other hand, it could be that your effort to run away is not wise and the bear easily catches up with you, allowing the bear to win and perhaps an untoward result for you. Not many of us will likely get into a circumstance of confronting a bear, and so let's consider something that might be higher odds of happening to any of us. Suppose you are in an airplane and the plane is on the ground and engaged in fire. Presumably, with or without panic, you'd realize that you should get out of the burning airplane. How can you get out of the burning airplane? I'm sure you've all sat through the flight attendants telling you to figure out beforehand the nearest exit to your seat. I'd bet that most people don't look to see where that exit is, and instead just kind of assume that when there's an emergency they'll figure out where the exit is.