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This isn't even a "trolley problem" it sounds like this is just "fake news": > "Throughout the entire duration the AV is stopped, traffic remains unblocked and
by lamontcg 3y ago
This isn't even a "trolley problem" it sounds like this is just "fake news":
> "Throughout the entire duration the AV is stopped, traffic remains unblocked and flowing to the right of the AV," a Cruise spokesperson said in a statement. "The ambulance behind the AV had a clear path to pass the AV as other vehicles, including another ambulance, proceeded to do."
> The video captured by Cruise showed that the ambulance parked behind the Cruise and did not attempt to pass the robotaxi in the rightmost unblocked lane. Instead, responders moved a firetruck to allow the ambulance to pass on the left. The video, which Cruise declined to share publicly, indicates that 90 seconds elapsed between the patient being put on the stretcher and the ambulance leaving the scene.
This is also the easiest "trolley problem" in the world since it was the vehicle driven by the human that struck the pedestrian and gave them a life threatening injury. I know humans have a metric fuckton of perceptual biases, but I have no idea why that isn't the intellectual equivalent of stabbing-you-in-the-face-obvious.
If the story was centered on the driver of the vehicle and if they were some rich narcissist we wouldn't have any difficulty understanding that blaming the vehicle that blocked the ambulance for 90 seconds was blame shifting.