A Great Time To Be A Driving Enthusiast

[mike_nofx]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

Enjoy sitting in your driverless car wondering what, exactly, the ethical deicsion making software will do if an emergency arises where a choice has to be made about "the greater good"...because it might just decide that the best thing to do is to kill you in an accident to "save more people" somewhere else on the road at the time...

And yes, this is a serious ethical programming question which is keeping programmers awake. They have to program a driverless car to make a choice, and one of those choices will be to cause a crash which may kill you to save others.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/5...ammed-to-kill/

Have you ever had to make a decision on the road which is either the death of you, or the death of more others?

What would you do in that scenario? Would you drive into the group of babies at the park, or head on into a semi?