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It's not the trolley problem because as yet we don't know how many people would be killed by rolling out self driving cars and, more to the point, the speed of
by crdoconnor 9y ago
It's not the trolley problem because as yet we don't know how many people would be killed by rolling out self driving cars and, more to the point, the speed of rollout and safety are not necessarily inversely proportional.
By characterising self driving cars as a "trolley problem" you have presented what is known as a "false dilemma". Maybe you could read up on that ;)
- jakecopp 9y agoGood point! Are there any publicly accessible crash/death statistics for cars with a similar price/safety/demographic profile as Teslas? I feel that is the only way we could isolate for self driving and not other factors.