Jeremy Clarkson made a fascinating point about the self-driving car and it's "intelligence." shortly before the whole fracas thing: If you assume these cars wi

Jeremy Clarkson made a fascinating point about the self-driving car and it's "intelligence." shortly before the whole fracas thing: If you assume these cars will some day be able to identify humans, what decision is made in a situation where the car can either swerve and (potentially) injure a bystander, or continue on a trajectory which calculates to be certain death for its occupants? What shocks me is how few people understand that this would not be a "decision" in the sense that the software would have a choice. It would either be coded in directly or would be a resultant output of the criteria it uses to already do its pathfinding.