Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?

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Will your driverless car kill you so others may live?

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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?