US safety investigators report: dilemma for self-driving cars is not saving one innocent victim over other; it's between caution and competitive advantage
It has nothing to do with the ‘trolley problem’ — he advent of self-driving cars revived the decades-old philosophical conundrum known as the “trolley problem.”
Forget the “trolley problem.” The real moral conundrum for self-driving car makers isn't between killing a baby and a grandma, it's between killing people and sacrificing their own business interests. https://onezero.medium.com/... (ht @alexhern)
Really nice piece by @WillOremus drawing out some of the implications of this https://onezero.medium.com/... Something I'd add is another way in which the trolley problem is so 2015: it's not actually got any relation to the way, y'know, cars work.
“That Uber put a self-driving car on the road before even considering jaywalkers suggests the company was more concerned with beating rivals such as Alphabet's Waymo to market than minimizing harm.” — @WillOremus https://onezero.medium.com/...