Imagine you are in charge of the switch on a trolley track. The express is due any minute; but as you glance down the line you see a school bus, filled with children, stalled at the level crossing. No problem; that’s why you have this switch. But on the alternate track there’s more trouble: Your child, who has come to work with you, has fallen down on the rails and can’t get up. That switch can save your child or a bus-full of others, but not both. What do you do?
This question is being asked and adapted for self driving or autonomous cars about an unavoidable accident. When presented with an unavoidable lethal accident does your car swerve into oncoming traffic or drive you into a cliff to reduce the loss of life??
What would you do? Let us know what you think?
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