About ten years ago, when the idea that we might soon be buying self-driving cars was itself rather new and the speculations on ‘robot ethics’ popular in the me

About ten years ago, when the idea that we might soon be buying self-driving cars was itself rather new and the speculations on ‘robot ethics’ popular in the media, one dude wrote: “This will be easily decided by capitalism—why would anyone buy a car that kills its driver and not others?”. Though for Tesla the prediction was afterwards adjusted by current obvious cyberpunk tendencies, in that publicity points for the corporation turned out to override the driver's wishes—still, evidently traditional manufactures don't have the same compunctious, as they need little advertisement in the US.