IDG Contributor Network: Google and Tesla self-driving tech comes under scrutiny, presents moral dilemma
Autonomous cars are in the news again, this time about new research into the moral implications of what happens in an accident.
In several interesting examples, researchers posed questions about what happens when there is a choice between two evils.
In one example, there are three choices. The robotic car has to decide between killing one passerby but not a crowd or the driver, killing people in the crowd, or killing the driver only. That’s a horrific situation and reminds me of what happened in Las Vegas when a human driver killed several people in a crowd (but lived herself).
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