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Aren't these two separate questions? Should autonomous vehicles be programmed to kill their owners in some circumstances? and Should owners of autonomous veh

• tacos 11y ago
  Exactly. There's an awkward, obvious shift in the article where it turns an age-old riddle that goes back way farther than 1967 into a rant that covers everything from DRM and jailbreaks and chain of trust to "morally ambiguous" and "exploitative overseas labour arrangements." It's not a tech article, it's a manifesto. Write the same article over and over for 15 years at a Zine and I guess they'll eventually let you spew it at The Guardian provided you refer to the subway as "tube" and spell labor with a "u." These are important issues that deserve far better presentation. Sourcing quotes from people actually doing the work and manufacturing the vehicles. Getting statements of policy from regulators on the record. Strengthening the ethical argument by having someone besides the author say it.
• newman314 11y ago
  They are separate questions. I thought this article was going to share some further insight as to how to address the "trolley" problem but instead all it did was to try make a tenuous connection between two different issues.