People want to ascribe some kind of agency to the self-driving car, like it is a thinking mind. It's not. It is a vehicle whose prime directive is the safety of

People want to ascribe some kind of agency to the self-driving car, like it is a thinking mind. It's not. It is a vehicle whose prime directive is the safety of its occupants, and secondarily the safety of others. It is not making judgement about pedestrians with canes, who are pregnant or veterans, or who are an underrepresented class. To do so is to design the wrong machine. The correct design is to either safely swerve to avoid hitting anything, or to hit the brakes. There's nothing else. As soon as you start doing "something else" you open a horrible, horrible can of worms. The even more correct design is to drive safely so that you never encounter this failure mode in the first place. So, this website is a critique of a system that does not and should not exist.