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The new technology of driverless cards has opened up a real-world corollary to the 65 year old tradition of Trolley Problems. The basic question here involved how the cars should be programmed: to protect their passengers or others out on the road?
Read these the two articles and watch the video dealing with issues arising from the programming of driverless cars.
spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/people-want-driverless-cars-with-utilitarian-ethics-unless-theyre-a-passenger and www.technologyreview.com/s/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/
Should Driverless Cars Kill Their Passengers?