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I think that given that choice the car will choose "which is less likely to hurt my passenger" since the passenger is the (paying) client and not the pedestrian

• gambiting 5y ago
  I think this is the correct answer. It will be simpler and more straightforward from a legal perspective too, since it can be argued that any driver would do the same - they would try to protect themselves first, if for no other reason than the fact that humans simply don't have the ability to evaluate situations that quickly and play through a trolley problem in their head while the car is heading for a collision - you instinctively do whatever action feels right to protect yourself. So I think self driving systems will be coded with that imperative as well - protect occupants first and foremost, and they won't be calculating the "worth" of whatever or whoever they are about to hit. The extent of damage calculation will end at "there is one occupant in the driver seat, so the damage to them will be lower if I hit the obstacle with the passanger side of the car", but it won't actually know or care what the "obstacle" is.