Maybe we'll get ethical settings in our robots so, like a human driver today, we get to decide if we'll kill the kid or kill ourselves. But the problem with let

Maybe we'll get ethical settings in our robots so, like a human driver today, we get to decide if we'll kill the kid or kill ourselves. But the problem with letting user have too many options is that we might end up at a less than optimal global outcome due to prisoner's dilemma-type choices. There could be more people killed, worse traffic, worse energy efficiency, etc. because users choose the selfishly beneficial options.