by MSI » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:28 pm
Dec 4, 2015: LA Times
OP-ED: Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?
by
Eric Schwitzgebel
which begins:
- "It's 2025. You and your daughter are riding in a driverless car along Pacific Coast Highway. The autonomous vehicle rounds a corner and detects a crosswalk full of children. It brakes, but your lane is unexpectedly full of sand from a recent rock slide. It can't get traction. Your car does some calculations: If it continues braking, there's a 90% chance that it will kill at least three children. Should it save them by steering you and your daughter off the cliff?"
and
"determining how a car will steer in a risky situation is a moral decision, programming the collision-avoiding software of an autonomous vehicle is an act of applied ethics."
Interesting quandry.
see the full
OP-ED: Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?Dec 4, 2015: LA Times [url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1206-schwitzgebel-driverless-car-safety-algorithm-20151206-story.html]OP-ED: Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?[/url]
by [url=http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/]Eric Schwitzgebel[/url]
which begins:
[list]"It's 2025. You and your daughter are riding in a driverless car along Pacific Coast Highway. The autonomous vehicle rounds a corner and detects a crosswalk full of children. It brakes, but your lane is unexpectedly full of sand from a recent rock slide. It can't get traction. Your car does some calculations: If it continues braking, there's a 90% chance that it will kill at least three children. Should it save them by steering you and your daughter off the cliff?"
and
"determining how a car will steer in a risky situation is a moral decision, programming the collision-avoiding software of an autonomous vehicle is an act of applied ethics." [/list]
Interesting quandry.
see the full [url=http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1206-schwitzgebel-driverless-car-safety-algorithm-20151206-story.html]OP-ED: Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?[/url]