Like an autopilot in a plane, I imagine that there are some problems that a self driving car cannot or should not attempt to solve. This shifts the ethical and

Like an autopilot in a plane, I imagine that there are some problems that a self driving car cannot or should not attempt to solve. This shifts the ethical and moral burden to the human driver as it should be. Though Armstrong in "Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence" makes an interesting point: "these programs [autopilots and stock trading programs] occasionally encounter unexpected situations where humans must override, correct or rewrite them. But these overseers, who haven't been following the intricacies of the algorithm's decision process and who don't have the hands-on experience of the situation, are often at a complete loss as to what to do - and the plane or the stock market crashes." This is pretty much what happened in AF447 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447). In a self-driving car case, I hope the human will be able to exercise at least a defensible judgement. I find the future of ethics of intelligent machines fascinating. I plan to put a lot more energy into this area.