Morality and Self-Driving Cars

If a trolley threatens to run over people on one track, would you pull a lever to switch it to a track where it would only kill one person?

Around the world, a new study asked 13 variations on the trolley morality problem, involving self-driving cars and combinations of victims young and old, rich and poor, and rule followers or breakers, among others.

Carmakers are global, so they will need to use the findings at the very least to adapt how they sell their increasingly autonomous cars, if not how the cars actually operate.

Read the article at Fortune.

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