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Death caused by automated vehicle is not the controversial aspect, the difficulty comes when there is a choice that the vehicle must make between possible outco
by sceptic123 1y ago
Death caused by automated vehicle is not the controversial aspect, the difficulty comes when there is a choice that the vehicle must make between possible outcomes:
* avoid crashing into pedestrian(s) but kill occupant(s)
* crash into pedestrian(s) to save occupant(s)
Real life trolley problem at work and programmed by someone somewhere
- tim333 1y agoTrolley problems don't really come up in real driving. If there are pedestrians in the way the driver, human or not will nearly always hit the brakes and that is unlikely to kill the occupants.
- sceptic123 1y agoSwerving to avoid x but hitting y has a greater than 0 chance of causing an accident which is fatal for the vehicle's occupants. I'm not saying it's likely, I'm saying a human will make that call in the moment, and we may judge that human for the decision. But how do you feel if a self-driving car is making that decision?