Who Dies : You Decide in Self-Driving Car Survey
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MIT researchers want you to decide how self-driving cars should make moral decisions. It’s a modern – and potentially real – twist on a classic hypothetical ethics problem. The trolley problem, in its most simplest form, asks you to imagine you are driving a train and find you are about to hit five people who are on the track ahead. There’s no time to stop the train or for the people to get out of the way, but you could divert it onto another track where you spot one person in the way. The question is whether you divert and, at its simplest, the choice is between the more rational decision of minimizing the casualties by diverting and the more philosophical view that actively choosing to divert makes you responsible for killing the one person whereas staying on track means the five deaths (...)